How To Use Horribly In A Sentence

He decided on a plan of action but it backfired horribly. Times, Sunday Times
Part of me thinks this sounds completely immoral; part of me thinks it sounds horribly thrilling.
FOOTBALL may be the beautiful game, but at times it can be horribly cruel. The Sun
I'm trying not to be too much of a Pollyanna about it all in case something goes horribly wrong and the tumor comes back. COLDHEART CANYON
Things seemed to be going horribly wrong.

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She was horribly aware that he was watching her every move.
Kaylin's understanding of the Dragon term hoard wasn't exact, but time had made clear that it meant 'touch any of my stuff and die horribly'. Archive 2009-10-01
With all due respect, I think that your perspective here is horribly simplistic, uncomfortably mis-targeted (to the point of near endorsement), and quite diversionary from the essential core issue. Oaxaca to Guadalajara: The good.. the bad.. & the ugly
It was jelly-like and it stunk horribly, like butter gone off or old chip pan oil.
Having said which, the goddesses Thetis, Athena, Hera and indeed the Trojan women, Hecuba and Andromache (and to an extent Helen) are all interesting characters in their own rights; as are most of the men, several of whom (this is hardly a spoiler) get horribly killed off during the conflict. March Books 17) The Iliad, by Homer
When an Olympic event incorporates brawling with the paparazzi into its most compelling moments, something has gone horribly wrong.
Thu 10/22/09 6: 48 PM tuna salad past it’s expiration date, pumpkin insides, apple cores, the gum from underneath my shoe, the stuff I swept out from underneath my kids beds, the after effects of a sixth grade science experiment gone horribly wrong … Is Jon Gosselin worth $10K? (Hate to say it, but maybe he is...) | EW.com
This darkly comic fable tells how the revenge plans for a New Year's Eve party go horribly wrong, as two wicked sisters plan the downfall of the third and most successful one.
But it is the story of a culture clash, and a textbook example for why mergers so often go so horribly wrong.
It seemed like a good idea at the time, and then it all went horribly wrong.
If you shout, I'll shoot you!" said the old man, in English, grinning horribly. The Three Midshipmen
He puffs and winces, excruciated with chest pains - which recur horribly in joyless mid-coitus with his other woman.
Not mention, I was horribly addicted to iced mochas and hot chocolates.
They both seem vulnerable and this feels horribly exploitative. Times, Sunday Times
He remained horribly disfigured and his speech was still badly affected. The Sun
Jagged impressions of brightly shining lights, like broken sunbeams gone horribly wrong, they flittered through his mind. Healing the Highlander
His imperialists are often nasty folk who behaved horribly towards the natives under their yoke.
I'm trying not to be too much of a Pollyanna about it all in case something goes horribly wrong and the tumor comes back. COLDHEART CANYON
Episode three revolves around a prank that goes horribly wrong and appears to have brought tragedy - tinged with jubilation - in its wake. Times, Sunday Times
I've been going through terrible pain thinking that she would be horribly, horribly disfigured. Times, Sunday Times
The silly prank could have all gone horribly wrong. The Sun
As far as opening lines go, it wasn't horribly original but, at the time, I really didn't care.
When trouble comes they behave selfishly and horribly.
The practice of infanticide, for selfish reasons, was, as we shall see in later chapters, horribly prevalent among many of the lower races, and even where the young were tenderly reared, the feeling toward them was hardly what we call affection -- a conscious, enduring devotion -- but a sort of animal instinct which is shared by tigers and other fierce and cruel animals, and which endures but a short time. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
The two were both horribly bad at the game, but had had fun laughing and poking fun at each other about it.
At first sight, the law may seem obscure, complex and horribly off-putting for the ordinary man or woman.
In the past, it has always seemed crude and incomprehensible and horribly unfunny, but one or other of us must have improved. Times, Sunday Times
We were still dazed from a horribly early start, in spite of the breezy boat ride.
The people who fought for free speech did not do so for others to be horribly cruel about some of the most vulnerable people on Earth. Times, Sunday Times
The basic idea, which I’m going to horribly bastardize, is that social power is exerted not just through obvious physical or economic coercion, but also in the ways information is categorized and used. They Argued With Her? In Academia!?
Just as long as she gets onstage, exposes her frap bloat and lipsyncs horribly, I'm all for it. Dlisted - Be Very Afraid
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited. Sylvia Plath
The openness of the personal computer has been a wonderful thing, but it has come at the very high price of products that are horribly complex and that remain intimidating even while they have become ubiquitous. Mandarins Missing the Point: Zittrain, the iPad, and the Death of Computing « Steve Wildstrom on Tech
But at the end of a week of hasty retreats on payday lenders and cigarette packaging such crazy symmetry sounded horribly plausible. Times, Sunday Times
Rather the reverse: art remains his vocation, but he reinvents it, horribly.
Renwick climbed aboard a young horse in the yard at home last week and was horribly squashed underneath his mount when it reared over backwards.
Good-natured ribbing is one thing, but I've seen these things go horribly awry, with the guest of ‘honor’ running out in tears.
Christopher S. Wenckus, head of the endodontics department at the University of Illinois at Chicago's College of Dentistry, said deaths or serious complications following root canals are "horribly uncommon. Chicagotribune.com - News
After his father was horribly killed in a gasworks accident, the 13-year-old David and his mother were left in considerable hardship.
And therewith I held the flasket aloft; but her face changed horribly; she sprang up in her chair and reached out her arm to clutch at the flasket, screaming like an eagle therewith. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The cliffs stand high over a river horribly diminished as the dry season flows towards its dramatic climax. Times, Sunday Times
White might be able to hold this endgame were her king not so horribly vulnerable. Times, Sunday Times
I've decided the whole thing is horribly funny - but heavily scripted.
We'll see if any horribly disfiguring scars turn up later.
What happened to the family of a gold-toothed Japanese soldier who died so horribly on a flyspeck of a Pacific island?
But on a more serious note, owning a pet with the level of consciousness of a chimp is horribly unethical. Matthew Yglesias » The Chimp Ban as Humor Stimulus
They get horribly outdated and contain inaccuracies. What's in a number? (Jack Bog's Blog)
During the whole horribly stressful process you have to be a goody-goody.
It started with regular chips my mum would make for dinner, then progressed to the loganberries on the tree in our backyard, and then to the little berries around the garden that were horribly bitter.
He's horribly self-involved, yet he probably imagines that he's trying to save the world.
Big black patches had settled under my eyes, and my lips and cheeks were horribly colorless.
A shot near the end of the first half went horribly wide. Times, Sunday Times
They had hollow eyes and sunken cheeks, and they wailed horribly in the darkness.
Police have remained confident over the years that her death was the result of a prostitution transaction that went horribly wrong and not necessarily a pre-mediated attack by a kerb-crawler. Undefined
Growing up as a bisexual was horribly confusing and I always had to be one thing or the other and in actual fact I'm neither.
You hear a lot of horror stories about proposing and things going horribly wrong. The Sun
He was horribly scared now.
He hit the side-netting with the first good chance of the night and miscued horribly across goal early in the second half. Times, Sunday Times
Today was ok, except my French oral went horribly wrong.
Many ordinary children suffer horribly during vicious civil wars.
That day, when Ally had yet again defended his talent, he pitched horribly; giving up three runs in the fourth inning and another five in the fifth inning.
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited. Sylvia Plath
In a genetics experiment gone horribly wrong, human and frog DNA were accidentally mixed and this giant tadpole egg was spotted downstream from the lab. Beat 360° 9/22/09
Apparently, a fountain of oil happens these days only if something has gone horribly wrong. Times, Sunday Times
But you know, my heart just sank too deep knowing how horribly spiteful, cruel and unproductive this issue is.
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited. Sylvia Plath
That is a horribly prohibitive price but there is much evidence to justify its meanness. Times, Sunday Times
The silly prank could have all gone horribly wrong. The Sun
At least it is safe to say that both series manage to avoid those horribly contrived plot twists whose only purpose is to tie up loose ends. Times, Sunday Times
I got horribly drunk once at college and that was enough - I learnt my lesson.
Ianto, to me, was going to die horribly from the moment he arrived on the show. RTD = Deceptively Playful
Bull's Head stringy fowls, with lower extremities like wooden legs, sticking up out of the dish; of its cannibalic boiled mutton, gushing horribly among its capers when carved; of its little dishes of pastry --- roofs of spermaceti ointment, erected over half an apple or four gooseberries. The Uncommercial Traveller
I’m currently in RN school; all I can say is 1) thank goodness we don’t have to wear dresses anymore, horribly impractical and 2) Not only were the hats ugly, but hats were banned because research found them un-hygienic (hats brushed up against curtains and were rarely cleaned which equaled nosocomial infection) I Can Be a Nurse « Awful Library Books
The walls had been horribly vandalized with spray paint.
In Krinding - a makeshift camp of brushwood and plastic close to Sudan's border with Chad - the stories are all horribly similar.
Have I made it abundantly clear here in the past that I am horribly unmacho? Unclebob Diary Entry
When the kidnapping goes horribly wrong, everyone is left hurting and searching for revenge.
Without a strong plot or convincing characters to give it any depth, the film turns into an exercise in waiting for people to die horribly for your entertainment.
Remic's new book BIOHELL is due out November 2008, and is about what happens when vanity nano-technology goes horribly wrong, and turns a full planet of vain footballer's wives into quite horrific zombies. MIND MELD: Is There Gender Imbalance in Genre Fiction Publishing?
I can honk out a few simple tunes on my horribly out-of-tune one-row (usually brought out at Christmas to play auld lang syne). Vivaldi - Performed on an Accordion » E-Mail
The rest was indescribable: riding a meteorite through incandescence, shock, thunderblast, stormwind, night, mountains and caverns of cloud, rain like bullets, crazy tilting and whirling of horribly onrushing horizon, while the noise roared and battered and vibrations shook brains in skulls and devils danced on the instrument panel. The Rebel Worlds
It was a bright orange color and it clashed horribly with my baby blue pajama bottoms.
It could all go horribly wrong if she has to swear an oath in court. The Sun
In Hill's Western Front context, it might very well be ‘a word which, horribly, blends the bleeding men with the rain and mud’.
No hastier retreat was ever beaten, and I took away with me the haunting image of the bland expressions and the horribly pallid complexions of the people staring at us through the chained door, their eyes piercing through you, their skin so white and deathly. ɘloЯ
Big black patches had settled under my eyes, and my lips and cheeks were horribly colorless.
He usually gives a virtuoso performance for which the Method school, but not Berthold Brecht, would have given him high marks As a TV performer, he leaves the critics batting for him at best, and horribly confused at worst.
Pardon me for saying this, but people who talk like that strike me as horribly immature.
Then it all went horribly wrong. Times, Sunday Times
He dropped to his knees, surrounded by the leavings of their feast, his senses horribly susceptible. SACRAMENT
In the past, it has always seemed crude and horribly unfunny, but one or other of us must have improved. Times, Sunday Times
For this is not simply a ‘message’ play, but a harrowing account of one family's trauma that rings horribly true.
By Thursday, the bump is the size of a golf ball and Laurel is horribly distracted, worrying that it could be a tumor. WINGS YA BOOK CLUB : CHAPTERS 4-6 | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
He begins with a few ice bucket challenges that went horribly wrong before moving on to face plants, belly flops and disastrous land kayaking stunts. The Sun
Laurence has a cool question for you: What movie scenes have horribly warped and scarred your psyche?
Some friends of his found the play horribly offensive.
In his arms he clutched a hand made stuffed animal that matched the soft green cotton breeches he wore and clashed horribly with the crème nightshirt that hung to his knees.
Later, we spent a lot of time lazing around in an island in the middle of a huge lake, ate some horribly cooked and greasy Chinese food and made our way back to the quaint town.
Deacon mishit his conversion horribly and the Rhinos hit the front for good soon after.
Attempts to make the tax code more consistent can backfire horribly. Times, Sunday Times
When an Olympic event incorporates brawling with the paparazzi into its most compelling moments, something has gone horribly wrong.
To begin with the whole idea is horribly embarrassing because it inevitably means the pelvic walk and a confident swagger. Fools Rush In - A Call to Christian Clowning
To those of us who live here, it's not news that the city is horribly polluted.
Family life was horribly stressful, so I've never wanted to replicate it. RESCUING ROSE
Everything is too much trouble, and it is made clear that your very presence is horribly inconvenient.
But the fractured structure leads to something hilarious and horribly lifelike. Times, Sunday Times
This has kept international phone calls horribly overpriced and internet access equally and maddeningly slow.
Think of the cost, the pain and the danger of something going horribly wrong. The Sun
Doctors feared an air rifle pellet had pierced his brain when the joke went horribly wrong.
They set out a kind of alfresco area under the trees, since none of them really wanted to be inside, and at any rate, Alberichs little sitting room would have been horribly cramped with all of them crammed into it. Exile's Valor
Nay, the monster had a certain key of style, or want of style, so that certain milder passages, which I sought to introduce, discorded horribly and impoverished, if that were possible, the general effect. The Wrecker
If it goes horribly wrong, you have disaster recovery. Computing
The last time she attempted an epic cycle of eighteen songs, the result was a horribly uneven album.
This may sound horribly sad and depressing to all you free teens but in fact I liked the quiet life.
My shoulder is playing up horribly.
“I am glad to see you, my dear children; you are very hungry and weary; and my poor Peter, thou art horribly bemired; come in and let me clean thee.” The Blue Fairy Book
I rewatched the movie this morning and realized how good and yet how horribly cheesy it is.
It was only when emergency crews rushed to his aid that they realised the stunt had gone horribly wrong. The Sun
That could have backfired horribly had we not won the Ashes so convincingly. Times, Sunday Times
Pot, mushrooms, speed (though it is horribly disgusting and it will never be that close to me again), 2CBI, exstacy, GHB (which I call coagulated ball sweat cause it tastes disgusting) and that is most of them. Misssio Diary Entry
He hit me in my bad shoulder, the one that got shot, so I hit the ground, and pretended it hurt horribly.
One and all, we got horribly infested with leeches, having a frill of them round our necks like astrachan collars, and our hands covered with them, when we came out. Travels in West Africa
But the fractured structure leads to something hilarious and horribly lifelike. Times, Sunday Times
A failed test of Mercedes' new radar braking system that resulted in a three-car pile-up last week has been exposed as a sham for the benefit of television that went horribly wrong.
The walls have been horribly vandalized with spray paint.
The horribly complex equations cover two pages, with factors including angular momentum, frictional force, angular velocity, axis of symmetry and gyroscopic balance.
She will, when ninety-five and expecting the gasman, get horribly nervous in case the boiler blows up.
By one of those strange coincidences, however, that drive comic novels, Gutman finds himself accidentally dispatching one of his tormentors, a horribly over-confident and over-articulate graduate student by the name of Dirck van Camper, and subsequently presents an essay of van Camper's, entitled "Total Mindfuck: A Study in Ethics and Embodiment," as his own. Posthegemony
This week's winds, rains and floods were horribly reminiscent of the stormy weather last winter. Times, Sunday Times
Spanning the watercourse was a beautiful multiarched aqueduct bridge built in the Carthaginian style, but sadly it was horribly broken in the middle. Seven Deadly Wonders
But the buses can be horribly crowded at times and are often held in the long traffic jams that snarl up key points at rush hours.
Whereas Christopher, a writer, should be pasty white and horribly pale, like a baker, not tanned like some playboy off a yacht.
Needless to say, it all goes horribly wrong. The Sun
It's one of the big things I took away from the trailer, meaning that, for my money, I think the baby griffin is going to die horribly and leave that kid weeping, struggling to become an adult. Poll Results!
Yet it all went horribly wrong. Times, Sunday Times
A fellow beside me lay weeping, his eyes pools of cloudy liquid - horribly like the eyes of a boiled trout. Anti-Ice
A U-boat's hiding below the freezing, horribly injured crew of a tanker they've just torpedoed and Coward's destroyer has sped in to rescue them... then discovers the sub on ASDIC. Crooks and Liars
Maybe it's because my two Toy Poodles were horribly upset one cold day.
After the reception, we had a party in our suite and proceeded to get horribly drunk. Times, Sunday Times
On the other hand, some teenagers, being teenagers, don't like (to use the now horribly dated parlance of my own adolescence) to be "hassled" by "the Man. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
No, wait - Eric, do we for some reason need horribly beflowered lampshades or perhaps pastel bathmats anywhere on the set?
It could all go horribly wrong if she has to swear an oath in court. The Sun
They are the mundane things but people often get them horribly wrong. Times, Sunday Times
I feel horribly unsteady on my feet. The Sun
His pre-emptive gloat page was proven to be horribly incorrect and has now been removed from his website and archives.
Most of them just need jobs, and these jobs are extremely easy to get because of the undesirable, and downright horribly nasty and cruel, nature of the work.
Once they got through the horribly long line, Ellen ran ahead and found them a table.
Suppose you convinced anti-medical-marijuana people that cannabis is indeed the only effective treatment for many patients, that they would suffer horribly without it, and that legalizing it for those patients would not lead to more illegal use by teenagers. How Would the World Change If Everyone Shared Your Factual Beliefs?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The funny thing is despite all the rules, regulations and procedures, dozens of old organizational sites set up as projects by those above still may be found in horribly outdated form if one takes the time to poke around, at least internally, though the rules are supposed to apply here as well. Looks Like MOD Can Overrule JSC (and NASA HQ) PAO - NASA Watch
A horribly dry cake with no greeting was plonked in front of her. Times, Sunday Times
At the end of this film the character whom you have been following, identifying with, gets brutally and horribly tortured and has his skin flayed off and his eyes pulled out. Exclusive: Wanted's Mark Millar Settles the Score for Fans « FirstShowing.net
Horribly, this never mentioning her only reinforced her absence. THE GOLDEN LION
Tracey, Stephen, Timothy and Kevin landed in the bottom, and although Stephen's bacon-wrapped Chilean seabass effort was universally panned (Waxman called it "inedible") and horribly executed, Tracey went home for her over-fenneled, sloppy, poorly-cooked italian sausage 'sliders' that Jonathan Waxman claimed his son could make, and that Colicchio said would be insulting to Italians, and therefore himself. Top Chef DC Finale: Who Will Be Named Top Chef?
The utter tragedy of her devotion to the man who had deserted her, the utter hopelessness of his own deep passion blightingly, horribly forced itself upon him. The Eternal Maiden
The organization's plans go horribly awry.
That first house was horribly ostentatious. Times, Sunday Times
It has been a singularly rude awakening for France and the country has embarked on a deep, soul-searching, introspection on how things could have gone so horribly wrong.
The toilets in that restaurant were horribly smelly.
Downing promptly missed a glorious opportunity, steering his shot horribly wide after being sent into the clear by Young. Times, Sunday Times
Ben, I know that you asked for suggestions as a comment but you must know me by now - wordy, verbose and horribly convoluted.
Those guys were ruthless, tooled up and had that horribly simple, unchanging mask for a face.
Watching this film made a sizable part of our inner child die horribly, choking to death on his own stickle-bricks. Miss Puerto Rico Possibly Telling Whoppers About The Pepper Spray
The simple question: 'How did we behave so horribly to this person? Times, Sunday Times
Presently the music of the orchestra ceased, and certain female acrobats, who had been "contorting" themselves fearfully and horribly for a quarter of an hour upon the stage, kissed their hands, which were as hard as ropes, from the nature of their profession, and smiled a fond farewell. In Luck at Last
A neat but obvious final twist makes amends for a horribly clichéd finale set on a rickety balcony.
It backfired horribly at the team's official presentation. Times, Sunday Times
NIGHT TWO Thursday PRE-OPENING This night I did call ahead to be sure of a place and was happy upon my arrival to find my name horribly misspelled in the computer, allowing me to rest easy that I had received the same treatment any enthusiastic diner would, and nothing special because of Augieland. Restaurants
Similar in ambition is "Constellation," a cut that initially appeared on the horribly named Bird Up Charlie Parker tribute album that was released 2003.
The show was also horribly underlit, making some paintings all but impossible to see adequately.
But horribly inconvenient for you, and for that I apologize.
I was a horribly gawky and nervous teenager and speech did not come smoothly out of my mouth.
The entire site was horribly damaged and required near-total restoration.
He was horribly upset over her illness.
This set of games is horribly addictive.
Yet safaris are also damnably pricy and horribly easy to get wrong. Times, Sunday Times
The man began to scream horribly.
At the end of the Eighties, everything in my life came unstuck; the critics panned my Joan of Arc musical and my long-term relationship fell horribly apart.
Family life was horribly stressful, so I've never wanted to replicate it. RESCUING ROSE
There are a few references and illustrations of the double-headed or bicephalous eagle in this book, but nothing horribly informative.
It was made horribly apparent yet again last week that politicians cannot. Times, Sunday Times
The demon took control of the chimp, the chimp crashed the car, all the occupants died horribly, and then I woke up.
When I think about it, I just feel horribly guilty.
The novel's last scene shows this beautifully, and horribly.
Horribly, inevitably, he is drawn to a bin of remaindered neckwear in grotesque paisley patterns - priced to move.
Disaster strikes the tattoo contest when a challenge involving a tribal head design goes horribly wrong - and results in a medical emergency. The Sun
He recalls being horribly sick on the deck of the storm-tossed surf charter he had hired with friends. Times, Sunday Times
Under credit cards poor went to slaw art pedestrian and got a horribly art opopanax, a pgce and bribable milklike bugology. Rational Review
I have quelled the ferocious beasties that are computer viruses, all without hurting those that should be maimed horribly.
I am glad to see you, my dear children; you are very hungry and weary; and my poor Peter, thou art horribly bemired; come in and let me clean thee.
This tightens the belts, gets the airbags ready and repositions the seats when the car thinks things have gone horribly wrong.
Something has plainly gone horribly awry in their domestic politics and the structure of their national economy. Times, Sunday Times
Dobbin is horribly bullied by his schoolfellows at Dr Swishtail's when it is discovered (after young Osborne ‘sneaks’ on him) that his father is a grocer.
Pope John XXIII, we learn at length, had a passion for Alessandro Manzoni's novel "I Promessi Sposi" (which Wills horribly translates as "The Plighted Couple" ", hen the book is widely known as" The Betrothed "). Take Me To Your Leader
The global economy is slowing, possibly horribly: under such conditions, protectionism thrives.
If judges are horribly political, politicized opposition to nominees is called for.

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