How To Use Horrific In A Sentence

Wanat was a horrific insurgent attack on a U.S. combat outpost in eastern Afghanistan last summer that left nine soldiers dead and 27 wounded. Way Up In The Sky Is The Leader Of The Greatest Band Of All Time | ATTACKERMAN
The Tasmanian Devil is the world's largest marsupial predator but its very survival is at stake as an horrific cancer threatens up to 90% of its population.
And when the Monkeewrench crew - computer geeks who made a fortune on games, now assisting the cops with special anticrime soft-ware - are invited by the FBI to investigate a series of murder videos posted to the Web, it's not long before the group discovers the frightening link between the unlucky bride and the latest, most horrific use of the Internet yet. Shoot to Thrill by P. J. Tracy: Book summary
Here was someone who did not allow the horrific hand of commercialism to dilute his message.
The place was only half full and it was still dark outside but it was way past bedtime on a Saturday night and midterms were just a dim, horrific memory.

His body was covered in horrific bedsores that caused him to cry out in pain whenever they were touched.
A rookie firefighter who was on his first day's duty with Keighley's Blue Watch has been praised for his actions when he was called to an horrific death blaze.
Police are treating the horrific crime as robbery. The Sun
Do we really believe that people who are capable of such horrifically violent crimes are going to be so coolly logical and rational?
These latter numbers look horrific, and seem hard to believe, but we are currently set on a path (especially now with the "breakages" in the banking system - today there is growing and informed specultion here in Catalonia that Caixa Penedes, and Caixa Catalunya may be the next to go) where it is hard to see how we won't get to that horrible place if no one does anything. A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros
The democrats on the other hand have joined the president on many pieces of legislation, including the horrific Patriot Act, the fundless No Child Left Behind Act, and even the baseless Iraq War. Joe Lieberman, Putting Self before Country, State, and Party
Despite the horrific rain of the previous two days the Timahoe sod provided a perfect surface which contributed to make this game so enjoyable.
But at the same time, they are designed to naturalize death, presenting us with bodies that are slowly and unhorrifically becoming undifferentiated organic matter.
This particular murder case was so horrific that it shocked even the most hard-bitten of New York police officers.
The runner claims it was a horrific accident. The Sun
Her injuries were so horrific that the vet had no choice but to put her to sleep.
I do, however, have a reason for not writing, a reason that I can express in two horrific words, words I wince at even as my trembling fingers tap them out on the keyboard: FINAL EXAMS.
Jurors were spared much of the gory detail in the case, but the horrific nature of the crime and the grisly aftermath was hard to avoid.
Decades of massive immigration had combined with corrupt government and the raw capitalism of the era to create horrific slums.
The enduring mythology of the Highland Clearances in which reluctant emigrants were thrown aboard cattle boats and sent on horrific transatlantic crossings by evil lairds has been shattered in a new study.
It was the world's second worst air disaster, a horrific re-run of the runway collision in 1977.
A landlord who was tied up and threatened at knifepoint while balaclava-clad raiders ransacked his Brentwood pub has told of his horrific ordeal.
The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima is a horrific image of war.
His rise coincides with Tom's life falling apart - his wife leaves him, and by mischance he becomes prime suspect in a horrific crime - and their stories intersect.
Her clothing had been ripped away to the waist in the horrific attack, said police spokesman Shlomo Ben Hemo.
That being said, I thought it was done in a beautifully horrific manner, with some shots that are hauntingly pulchritudinous. Top 10 Best Modern Horror Remakes » Scene-Stealers
I have never seen such horrific injuries.
The government said that the measure was designed to reduce Russia's horrific toll from traffic accidents caused by dangerous driving. Times, Sunday Times
It was horrific and gruesome and I wondered how any of these women could get through each day without committing patricide.
The demon-king Rawana bares his fangs and pops his eyes astride his horrific mount Wilmana. Island Art, and All That Comes With It
It's more of a drug movie than a sex movie, culminating in an horrific murder, of which the perpetrators remember nothing.
The boy had received horrific injuries in the attack, including lacerations to both arms.
The horrific TV pictures of huge burning pyres of animal carcases helped make animal welfare a more sensitive issue.
There is now a horrific and bloody war being waged within me.
Miss Lewis says doctors have told her that her father now has a 50 per cent chance, possibly less, of surviving the horrific injuries.
He says that is the way it has to be, because the reality is too horrific to squeeze into a prime time television slot.
No wonder they had dropped into the relegation zone while he was recovering from his horrific stomach injury - a torn bowel - earlier in the season. The Sun
This is a deranged concept leading an innocent man to do horrific tasks in grotesque detail, and it puts it all in first person. EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Some skinny on the actual play of Manhunt 2
The film showed the most horrific murder scenes.
The story is a classic one, well-told, managing to tread the difficult line between conveying thehorrific crime without salaciousness, and sympathy with the victim and her family. Book review
The presence of this entity signifies intense levels of ultramundane energies and dimensional rifts and when detected evokes the joyfully horrific.
But instead of feeling glam with her new style, she suffered a horrific allergic reaction - having failed to take the recommended patch test first. The Sun
Some horrific things happen in it, to be sure, but until the end it's not a particularly scary movie.
He takes a ghoulish delight in reading about horrific murders.
In the horrific aftermath dozens of people were badly injured and two died. Times, Sunday Times
The combination of horrific makeup, abhorrent timing, and trite jokes has literally become painful.
For a split second, ugly scenes try to squeeze into my brain: planes nosediving, twirling, horrific screeching, explosions on impact.
For the peasantry in particular, the periods of English occupation must have been horrific.
Too often these horrific crimes have gone unpunished. The Sun
He said all dog owners must ensure that their pets are under full control at all times, and are not allowed roam freely in the countryside where they can inflict horrific damage on a sheep flock.
Some copy writer in the park service waxed poetic and referred to the people who are pulled out to sea never to be seen again as "luckless" (or "hapless," I can't remember now), as if the sleeper wave were a particularly horrific agent of fate, which I guess it is. Sonoma Coast
I was disgusted, at such a serious moment and even horrific, how could he think of money.
He either endured a horrific childhood or is a complete sadist.
Yes, this is another horrific tale of roommates gone wrong, with the mousy-voiced Meester (TV's "Gossip Girl") menacing the mousier-voiced Minka (TV's "Friday Night Lights" and "Parenthood"). The Seattle Times
Before completing its time, though, it opts unrepentantly for horrific grindhouse violence. Times, Sunday Times
Police described the attack as horrific.
And then, recollection of what she had seen thrusting itself on her with horrific clarity, a genuine cry of repulsion. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
The mushroom cloud over Hiroshima is a horrific image of war.
Don Black's gimcrack lyrics range from the instantly forgettable to the indelibly horrific: "Well, who would have thought that a waitress from Rowena / Would have had the balls to bust me out my old .45 / And who would have thought that a farm boy from Teleco / Would outsmart the smartest lawmen and walk out of here alive? Wheel This Barrow Out of Town
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?
The siege had come to a brutal and ugly end, but the full horrific scale of the crisis had not yet revealed itself.
In addition to the laugh and I do agree with Icanhasyarn that this one looks like a gallows, which is a particularly horrific motif for a birthday cake, I also have the comfort of knowing my birthday cake - since I will be making it myself - will look ever so much more festive and happ. One Really IS the Loneliest Number
Practically, the risk to us of social unrest is too horrific to even consider. Doug Schoen: An Unspoken National Crisis
I truly believe this set back, although horrific, my bet is they will recover and move on, hopefully sooner than soon. Monarch Butterfly Sanctuaries
It’s an American concentration camp, its horrific that the U.S. has become a nation that would permit a kind of clamouring vindictive ‘prison culture’ to exist, a revenge culture that celebrates execution, military strikes, imprisonment, and torture. Firedoglake » The Home of the Brave
The rich and the poor are worlds apart yet we are never told or never see the really horrific scenes.
Opera productions are horrifically expensive.
Much of modern history may be understood through the prism of cultic behaviour and its horrific consequences. Times, Sunday Times
A notorious accident spot that has been the scene of horrific road crashes is the focus of a new safety plan.
The force threw Rebecca off the bed - it was just horrific.
The government said that the measure was designed to reduce Russia's horrific toll from traffic accidents caused by dangerous driving. Times, Sunday Times
Why should we leave unchallenged and undebated a practice so horrific that words alone fail to describe it? ProWomanProLife » Note to the administration: They’re not backing down
Some claim that the film glamourises drug abuse, but amidst the dark humour, there are some truly horrific moments.
No matter how horrific the image, the photographer has documentary evidence on his side.
gpzbc: jeez, I'm a horrific typer. "comparability" should read configurability. DirSync Pro Keeps Your Files Synchronised | Lifehacker Australia
It's impossible to forget such horrific events - they linger in the memory forever.
First time round it was terribly trendy, but it's horrific that it's actually back in fashion.
To lose a child that way or to have to identify their body would be just horrific.
A woman suffered horrific injuries yesterday when a corrosive liquid was thrown in her face at a bus stop. Times, Sunday Times
He's an alcoholic physician tormented by an horrific memory.
The truly horrific adaptation, however, remains the 1933 version starring Charles Laughton, titled Island of Lost Souls.
The letter was worded in such a way that made the exam sound like something horrific.
The course of this journey is one fraught with self destructive and horrific events.
Some have gone on to commit further horrific crimes. The Sun
Many of them show attacks on children and are too horrific for a newspaper.
New York night life in all its true, hilarious, horrific, poignant and pinheaded glory.
No distinction in this horrific civil war was made between combatants and civilians. The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
They brought back horrific accounts of murder and pillage.
He thought they were absolutely horrific: masculine and aggressive. Times, Sunday Times
A pair of Staffordshire Terrier crosses mauled three cats to death and attacked a woman during a horrific killing spree on a Southampton estate.
The gloomy conclusion of these studies was that while certainty was impossible until the horrific moment, it looked like a suborbital nuclear air blast could zap our system into uselessness. How the End Begins
He thought they were absolutely horrific: masculine and aggressive. Times, Sunday Times
It's a pretty horrific ‘general principle,’ though, innit?
In this sleazoid farce where characters cackle like horrific hens in a sexual slaughterhouse, individuals coexist in insular states of self-absorbed eccentricity.
The consequences of drugs prescribed by practitioners with bogus qualifications and only the haziest understanding of medicine can be horrific.
James gesticulated wildly to the bench in that chilling dance of the sportsman who knows something horrific has happened. Gloucester 34-22 Bath | Premiership match report
Endless images of wholesale destruction and the war machines that brought it about blurred the boundary between reality and fiction, the normal and the horrific.
Witnesses who watched the chaos unfold described horrific scenes as emergency services tried to save the lives of the two policewomen.
The horrific images that made him famous return to haunt him. Times, Sunday Times
The Pima in Arizona have been the focus of a tremendous amount of research because even by American standards they are incredibly obese and suffer horrific rates of diabetes and heart disease.
She has a chart – just in case I forget that tiny arachnids with white tails can cause horrific ulcerations to the skin or that the ones with red backs can kill. Khaos » 2009 » March
The USGA is party to the horrific set-to we face today.
It's horrific to think of either. The Sun
Hopefully this change will not wipe away traces of the past, however horrific, before you have a chance to go there.
These buildings had produced the most sickening and horrific ashes and smoke in existence, and now they were where the thief was hiding.
He was my boss years ago in TAFE, and he refused to give me a full higher duties allowance and complained about my work even though I was working 20 hours a week unpaid overtime and the workload (teacher recruitment) was horrific. I don't do subtle.
After surviving such a horrific crash the last thing either of us wanted was to have to take to the skies again. FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
The hangover from digesting the 130 billion pints of lager the two sell each year will be horrific. Times, Sunday Times
David Morse, as an American engineer, faces horrific conditions after being kidnapped by Colombian renegades.
To its credit, the picture doesn't shy from depicting the horrific reality of execution by electric chair, although it stops short of coming down firmly in an anti-death penalty stance.
Stunned townsfolk were beginning to return to homes on the outskirts of the disaster zone as the impact of the horrific blast sank in. The Sun
We have women in our shelter waiting for ages while they undergo multiple operations - it's horrific. Times, Sunday Times
Tributes were paid yesterday to young sweethearts who were killed in a horrific car crash at an accident blackspot.
But, alas, I was sad to be stuck once again in horrific traffic.
Her clothing had been ripped away to the waist in the horrific attack, said police spokesman Shlomo Ben Hemo.
There's no doubt that some people suffered almost unimaginably horrific deaths.
While such a history had horrific implications for the resident population, the long-term impact was a cosmopolitan court culture reacting to influences from all directions.
We had a horrific journey, but we lived to tell the tale.
His hunch was right - but led to horrific results when the beast managed to creep up on him. The Sun
A week or so before the horrific events of September 11, 2001, I had a dream, a nightmare about something that happened, something big and awful, and in those gauzy in-between moments upon awakening I began to imagine a story about a global nightmare, an epidemic cauchemar that would breach the fourth wall of sleep and change the way people would relate to one another. Hasta la vista
Police described the attack as horrific.
His wife was seven months pregnant as she watched the horrific scenes unfold on television in London.
When he was injured in an horrific bobsledding accident in Italy in 1991, the former national decathlon champion lost his career, some of his faculties and a few of his friends.
Returning to the present, we find him a confused and frustrated old man, unable to come to grips with the horrific realities of modern war.
Hishorrific wounds and demonic face all paint and fakery for the sake ofthe show, a performer belonging to the Bahurupi nomad communityprepares to entertain villagers in the state of Maharashtra.
He suffered horrific injuries in the attack.
Royal Rosa disappointed on his seasonal debut after making a horrific mistake at the first flight.
Yet not a single political party is uncompromisingly committed to the sort of programme of radical reform which would rectify these horrific wrongs.
As he grew up he refused to allow the horrific accident to prey on his mind and despite his disability he was able to do well at primary and elementary school.
While his expression beseeched her, she thought him fraudulent, covering his horrific deeds with an aura of Mr. Super Clean. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
But carried forward, we still use the word decimated to indicate horrific losses even or particularly in the case of military conflicts. The Volokh Conspiracy » How Statistics Get Distorted — An Example
The aid coming in has made no impression on the horrific death rates.
She was involved in a horrific smash, crashing into two cars which had already been involved in an accident.
Not every bad thing that happens, not even every awful, horrific thing, is necessarily traumatic.
This is a personally horrific, professionally-damaging and gutless accusation to make without substantiation.
A Saw type figure, played by Tyler Perry as Madea in a horrific Richard Nixon mask, taunts the survivors with his eerie song "kerplunk kerplunk, marbles on your head, I pull out another stick, and you'll be dead. Jilly Gagnon: New Movies From Mattel
The terror in Zimbabwe is horrific whether or not it resembles the Holocaust or ethnic cleansing in Bosnia. 2007 June 06 « One-Minute Book Reviews
She knew she was dirty and filthy and right now, she smelled horrific.
They had sat through some horrific details, hearing how the brave security guard was bound, gagged and beaten to death.
It was so unbelievably, horrifically brilliant that we were frankly worried we might have dreamt it.
They encounter a little ugly man who is understandably furious at the invasion of his property by these two strangers and vociferates horrific but comically impotent threats.
Doctors feared she would die from horrific injuries caused by the 98 per cent strength caustic soda. The Sun
The teenager, wanting only to be named as Andrew, suffered horrific injuries when he was knifed in the face by a supporter at the football match.
Following the horrific loss of life and injury, blood supplies are critically low.
It is an horrific and extremely cowardly attack, which was totally unprovoked.
‘Dave is one of these guys who finds a way to survive and exist despite a past filled with horrific events,’ the actor muses.
When he was just 12, his father, a gasworks foreman, suffered an horrific industrial accident and died later in hospital.
‘This level of quite horrific violence which has been perpetrated against the pygmies is part, or was part, of a campaign aimed at exterminating them,’ he said.
And then there are the horrific stories of abuse in old people's homes that pop up with depressing regularity. Times, Sunday Times
In the letter he told of Barbara's battle to recover from her horrific ordeal.
She was talked about in such a vile, horrific and derogatory way by certain people. Times, Sunday Times
His ‘torture memo’ is inarguably a horrific piece of legal reasoning, which uses lawyerly cleverness to evade the plain sense of words and endorse the policies his superiors wanted endorsed.
Her entries range from those of a social butterfly, flitting from one society event to another, to horrific accounts of the bombing of Berlin and Vienna.
Now thousands of them were left completely defenseless in this horrific tragedy.
This century has been marked by some of the most horrific events in the history of mankind.
This was, by far, Carlow's best performance of the year, exorcising that horrific hammering in Ballina five weeks ago when Mayo beat the Barrowsiders by 15 points.
The quick, shocking flashbacks of Sethe's brutalization by her white masters don't do the job -- they're horrific, but with a B-movie luridness. The Ghosts Of Slavery
Her reliance on transparent papers, stencils, stamps, collage and tracings lightens the often horrific nature of her imagery by making it seem on the verge of dissolution.
The greatest thing about this picture, adapted from a novel by "William Irish" (a pen name for Cornell Woolrich) is its completely invented reality which, while certainly informed by German Expressionism, spins off into a realm of horrific hilarity, as in the picture's legendary "jazz drummer" sequence, wherein Raines, dolled up and playing hep-kitten, eggs on hopped-up Elisha Cook Jr. (who has information that could exonerate Raines 'boss) to a kind of percussive orgasm. In The Company Of Glenn
If Irishwomen are going to have abortions would it not be better that they are accommodated here rather than be forced to undergo what must be an unimaginably horrific journey to have it carried out in another country? An inconvenient truth: abortion, Ireland and the left
Thyrza Primp invariably wears some horrific creation secured to her hair by a pin. THE DISPOSAL OF THE LIVING
Manu flew back on Sunday after his compassionate leave following thehorrific atttack on the Togo team bus at the African Nations Cup inAngola in which three people were killed.
He appeared totally detached from the horrific nature of his crimes.
Examples of the tragedies caused by the scientific fraud that is vivisection include thalidomide and roaccutane which caused horrific birth deformities, clioquinol which causes blindness in humans, and the sleeping tablet halcion which caused serious mental disturbances," Miller, a zoology honours graduate, said. ANC Daily News Briefing
TWO badly hurt British schoolkids are still in hospital after a horrific coach crash in France. The Sun
The potential for future conflicts is horrific, and will remain so while capitalism survives.
Despite the risk of blood poisoning and going into shock after the horrific bite, doctors expect the spider to make a full recovery. The Sun
Now, even given the horrific worldwide opinion of British dentition, which is not wholly-unjustifiable, and the stunning UK sweet-tooth, I found this a, how shall we say, rather large amount of sugar, especially in comparison to the penurious amounts of food that the provisions amount to, no matter how large the original amount might seem. Science
Truth is often stranger - or more horrific - than fiction, which is why, after years of docusoaps and other imitations of reality, documentaries are growing in popularity.
This story is quite sad and horrifying on several levels: though we don't know why she did it, the fact that the woman willingly placed herself in a potentially deadly situation, with such horrific consequences, may stem from the fact that animals such as polar bears are played up for their "adorableness" and the reality, that these are creatures who do not care to be your giant teddy bear and should be considered quite dangerous when threatened or provoked, gets lost in the cuddly marketing of such things. Jezebel
The murders are garish and gruesome, as Vail investigates the crime scene of each victim, until an important person of stature is horrifically murdered, changing the whole profile of the killer, but also presenting some terrifying links to Vail herself. “The 7th Victim” by Alan Jacobson (Vanguard Press, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog
A spirited young girl who suffered horrific injuries in a freak horse accident has blossomed into a promising athlete with a bright future.
The people are blanked out to allow you to receive the full horrific impact of their trashy homes.
It's horrific and frightening and makes you question yourself and what you might be capable of.
Almost every day that week, Pakistani-army minions carried out horrific acts on Indians.
Three Good Samaritans who stopped to help at a crash scene were among six people killed in an horrific pile-up on the A1 near Boroughbridge.
The human survivorsattempt to destroy the creatures, butthey adapt and transform again, becoming even more horrific and unstoppable. Night and Fog Comic Optioned for Film
The aid coming in has made no impression on the horrific death rates.
Passengers were herded to the back of the planes in horrific scenes of panic and confusion as many came to the terrible realisation their flights were about to be sent plunging to the ground.
To be sure, Falstaff is a rake, a ne'er-do-well, and a lousy soldier, not to mention horrifically overweight. Shakespeare in Love, or in Context
It is difficult to imagine a more horrific attack. The Sun
horrific conditions in the mining industry
The horrific images that made him famous return to haunt him. Times, Sunday Times
But, when we are face to face with the horror of war, the evil that Palin sees is not in the horrific battles between human beings and nations. Palin calls news org 'heartless and selfish'
She shot down stairs faster than she had moved for thirty years, her head full of horrific accidents.
Carefully unpicking the myth that has grown up around these games, Dougan illuminates an horrific period in Ukrainian history without succumbing to sensation.
Even a horrific rape committed within earshot of a big family get-together was ignored.
We had a horrific journey, but we lived to tell the tale.
Pale, pigeon-chested specimens with horrific skin lesions are transformed by a few months of surgical sunning. Times, Sunday Times
In his very funny portrayal of the scene - the carabineros turn up with a giant water cannon which the locals call The Spitting Lama - he gives a horrific eyewitness account of an old woman being beaten up.
What surprised me most of all was her book extract, with tales of her horrific childhood.
Artaud's solid and daunting denials of lies and politics, as in the opening of Pour en finir avec le jugement de dieu To Have Done with the Judgment of God, and his horrific explorations, like flaying of the psyche and Manichean screams were there to be read, heard, and imagined. Anis Shivani: Exclusive: Beat Poet Michael McClure On Jim Morrison, The Doors, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac
A man suffered a horrific eye injury after he and his girlfriend were attacked by a gang of thugs as they left a pub.
The cost of patents on biologicals used in healthcare and medicines would be even higher and more horrific.
A woman suffered horrific injuries yesterday when a corrosive liquid was thrown in her face at a bus stop. Times, Sunday Times
Doctors feared she would die from horrific injuries caused by the 98 per cent strength caustic soda. The Sun
His hunch was right - but led to horrific results when the beast managed to creep up on him. The Sun
It was deeply distressing to see so many victims with often horrific injuries. Times, Sunday Times
Initially, I thought this was some sort of horrific animal cruelty ring - like dog fighting, but a bit wussier - and was about to tip off the RSPCA. Dater Archives
The subject was the unusual cruelty towards civilians, including the summary shooting of male teens and the use of white phosphorus as a chemical weapon; the goopers played it up that WP wasn’t a chemical weapon, it was an ordinant blah-de-blah-de-blah about the technical reasons, redirecting attention from the horrific wounds on the bodies of women, children, teenagers, old person lying in their beds… Firedoglake » Bubble Boy No Longer? Hmmmm…

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