How To Use Horrified In A Sentence

A local publication, The Evening Bulletin said, ‘The reporter had been horrified to see two fatted calves strolling up main street!’
She was shocked and horrified but she is sticking by me and says she will help me as best she can. The Sun
But what had caught the Bo'sun's horrified attention was not the furniture but the two men who lay spreadeagled on the floor. SAN ANDREAS
This was virtually unheard of from a woman of her upbringing and her family were horrified. The Sun
I was elated and horrified by the sheer outrageousness of the problem we had set before them.

I do love her and my family would be horrified. The Sun
He winced at her startled, horrified gasp and continued.
Not that he was really concerned with the horrified reaction of the less bloodthirsty.
She was absolutely horrified and refused to talk to me. Times, Sunday Times
The visitor, we're told, gazing at the soft-bellied male race enthusiasts in the stands, would be horrified and bellow (if he could indeed speak): "My sons, my sons, why have you forsaken me? Testosterone Put to the Test
He referred to the red carpet that some official belonging to the duumviri had laid down the full length of the jetty, a sign of kingliness that horrified Octavian. Antony and Cleopatra
They were interested, sympathetic, but certainly not shocked or horrified. Coping With Sudden Hair Loss
Horrified. Sickened. I love life above everything, so when an event of this magnitude occurs, you can bet I am heartsore over the lives lost because they are covered in oil.
Many households must be watching this series in horrified fascination as they see their well-meaning attempts at parenting lampooned with such merciless accuracy. Times, Sunday Times
We are, as the experts like to say with a horrified sense of wonder, aliterate - able to read, and read well, but disinclined to do so.
The horrified pair then saw his overturned car in a ditch - and discovered his lifeless body inside. The Sun
They sat there horrified as the television blared the awful news.
Each knew what his or her censor would allow and each was horrified to discover that the other's censor had totally different points of reference. Know Your Own Mind
She was so horrified by the "falsies" and at the poor treatment she received from sales associates in department stores that she reinvented herself and started a new company: Sun Bloggers
Dad was horrified when he eventually found out, but this was the world he lived in.
Mr Robinson said he had been horrified to watch the Boxing Day disaster unfold and was desperate to raise money from busking as he could not afford to give any cash himself.
Watching from a portable TV at the wedding she's attending, she is horrified to see this shamelessly sexual display.
Baldwin was horrified by these draft documents.
A faded movie star is horrified when she discovers her trusted secretary is about to marry a gossip columnist. The Sun
His father was horrified by his son's literary endeavours. Times, Sunday Times
And don't be too horrified at some of the naff singles I've ended up with over the years.
The memory of Anthony and me standing in front of that mirror, both of us horrified by my fatty, slitty eyes, is still quite painful. Unbearable Lightness
The leak horrified senior officers at the base. Times, Sunday Times
His decision horrified former frondeurs like Jean Le Boindre, who wrote that as ‘the French had changed their laws and their monarchy, they might as well change their name’.
When confronted with the reality of a shabby and hostile England unlike the England of her dreams, she is utterly horrified.
I am a firefighter based at Bispham fire station and was horrified and a little upset to read what one of your readers had written in to say.
Professor Rodriguez had been horrified by all the calls for massive retaliation: " Not in my son's name you don't.
I dragged him outside and started shutting all the doors and windows - He just looked at me horrified and made a mad dash back inside.
The grisly human sacrifice described by Dio Cassius is presented as the work of a handful of violent drunks and is quickly stopped by an appalled Boudica, and a little Roman boy is horrified by a bear-baiting in the arena. Boudica, Queen of the Iceni
I was horrified when I heard the following sound bites during the glorified PR exercise, disguised as a public information meeting.
It is believed that shortly afterwards gravediggers stole his body, which ended up on a dissecting table in Cambridge, where a horrified acquaintance recognised it.
Horrified at having her spending curbed, she resorts to underhand methods until she is caught cheating at her favourite wine bar. The Sun
OK, you probably think that whenever you've got a gnarly zit or your hair is frizz-city, everybody is as horrified as you are.
He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip.
Residents in Pear Tree Close were horrified when a large tipper truck dumped tons of rubble and waste in their quiet residential street on March 16.
I have felt powerless, disgusted, frustrated, horrified and even fearful this week, all in equal measure.
Shaeron has sent the message to horrified mirror smashers: ‘Please don't bin them’ because she needs the pieces for her latest creation.
Investigations unearthed evidence of corruption, bribery and kickbacks that horrified the public, politicians and sponsors. Times, Sunday Times
The men horrified me, the way they seemed to be living unfulfilled ambitions through their sons.
One horrified onlooker said: 'The ice could have cracked at any time. The Sun
Medics were horrified to discover that one of her lungs had collapsed. The Sun
When she arrives, she is horrified by my patchwork of sample colours. Times, Sunday Times
Lochiel, one of the Jacobite commanders, brought his clansmen back to the field the next day to show them the product of their labours, and his men were horrified at what they had done in the heat of battle.
Medics were horrified to discover that one of her lungs had collapsed. The Sun
Mood index: slightly horrified: early morning mutterings from the AP newswire: August 3rd, 2005
There had been a great social divide and some were horrified at what they found on the other side. Times, Sunday Times
The horrified reaction of his religious superiors led to the idea being quickly dropped. Times, Sunday Times
When John saw the costume designs, he was horrified, finding them quite impracticable for dancing.
They were horrified that this should result from the wholesome food produced on the farm, and disregarded the letter. Times, Sunday Times
Horrified by the lice and fleas, she had thrown her clothes away and was covered only in a blanket, although it was midwinter. Times, Sunday Times
Horrified holidaymakers looked on as Jack collapsed unconscious following the accident, and a helicopter was called in to airlift him off the side of the mountain.
She was surprised and horrified by the blood tears that seeped out from under the sagged down eyelids and plopped in maroon patches onto the Sybil’s white robes. Blackbird Pie « A Fly in Amber
Reality of the situation came back down when I heard the chimes go through the house and I froze, horrified.
His family were horrified by the change.
He was horrified at the thought of his son prancing about on a stage in tights.
Horrified bystanders tried in vain to drive the berserk animal away until a policeman grabbed a fire extinguisher and sprayed it. The Sun
Then, while Clara cowered in the flowered taffeta corner of a sofa, terrified of her son and horrified by his life, he told them. DANSVILLE
When she further discovers that Arabella is at work on a secret manuscript, a book of "observations" on the behavior of domestic servants, Bessy is horrified that her sordid past is not as carefully concealed as she has supposed. The Observations by Jane Harris: Questions
(Even when I was a high school student I might have been titillated by them in the usual adolescent manner, but I wouldn't have been horrified or unduly influenced by them.) Literary Study
She was horrified to discover that he loved Rose.
We didn't have a telephone and, horrified at the sight of blood, I ran into the street panicking.
She is suitably horrified when her childhood friend turns up on her doorstep looking to relive old times - and borrow a bit of cash.
He referred to the red carpet that some official belonging to the duumviri had laid down the full length of the jetty, a sign of kingliness that horrified Octavian. Antony and Cleopatra
Horrified, he relates how he was given goat stuffed with onions, garlic, and leeks, swimming in fish sauce.
Horrified, Patience muttered an imprecation, and rapidly did it up. A RAKE'S VOW
They make the film interesting and do their best to be horrified gristle for the ghoulish girl out to exact revenge on them.
He was horrified at some of the images he saw on the screen.
The House of Commons, too, was horrified at the notion of a Scottish king styling himself ‘King of Great Britain’.
It was impossible to tell from Trimmer's goggle-eyed expression whether he was horrified or amused. STAGE FRIGHT
Foley "engaged in reprehensible conduct," Rep. Chris Chocola, R-Ind., said at a debate here Tuesday night after Joe Donnelly, his Democratic opponent, said in his opening remarks that people were "horrified" to learn about the Foley scandal. GOP forced off issues it wants to run on
His parents (Anton Skrzypiciel, Nina Goldman) and his sister Grete (Laura Day) are alternately horrified and pitying, but whether they see a giant insect or a man suffering a breakdown in a fouled bedroom we are never really sure. Jewels; The Metamorphosis – review
Horrified, she calls the veterinarian and asks what to do. Omri Marcus: The Middle East and the Dead Dog in the Living Room
I was horrified, and yet strangely hypnotized by Shatner's little jello jiggler dance while Jackson was singing. Wednesday YouTube: Shatner Sings "Common People"
Locals have been horrified by the flocks of tourists heading to their town for all-night raves and bar crawls. The Sun
Galbraith would be horrified by the suggestion that he is part of the mainstream, instead presenting himself as a trenchant critic of what he sees as the corporate-dominated values of today.
I was horrified that people would think I was dead and bury me alive.
A WOMAN choked to death in front of her horrified husband after a mouthful of Indian curry ‘went down the wrong way’, an inquest heard.
ONCE again DNA provides the key to solving crimes that horrified the nation. The Sun
Locals have been horrified by the flocks of tourists heading to their town for all-night raves and bar crawls. The Sun
Instead, there were acres of plate-glass windows where Stella could catch horrified glimpses of her reflection. JUST BETWEEN US
Isaac, horrified, ducked behind the ornamental wall and slugged Saconi in the thigh.
I tried hard to stop thinking about the turbulence and focus on the in-flight movie, and it must have worked because when the credits started rolling two hours later, I was horrified to realize that we were still holding hands as we droned our way across the Atlantic, particularly as the turbulence had stopped around an hour and a half ago. Kim Carillo: The Day Prince William's Pal Held My Husband's Hand and Other In-Flight Shockers
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and seeing it practiced. Samuel Butler
Horrified families with small children queuing to catch buses at the end of the Balloons Over Waikato nightglow at Waikato University on Saturday night watched as fights involving up to 500 drunken youths broke out resulting in a woman being "bottled" and six people taken to hospital. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
Even the police were horrified at the macabre nature of the killings.
Everyone is horrified by something, of course. Times, Sunday Times
Before Luke's horrified eyes, Jaid swallowed the immortality draught and, with a shocked gasped, collapsed onto the ground before him, unconscious.
Tim watched Rayner's betrayal with the horrified anticipation of a first-day-on-the-floor med student at a thoracotomy. THE KILL CLAUSE
They probably love seeing her but they may be horrified at his lack of responsibility. The Sun
Horrified, he erased the hard disk and started from scratch with new anti-virus software.
Investigations unearthed evidence of corruption, bribery and kickbacks that horrified the public, politicians and sponsors. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, a horrified response would be one of the means by which he or she would help to alert and enlighten his or her fellow creatures.
They say they are horrified to hear of the series of mishaps suffered by you and your wife and are very sorry. The Sun
He left in 1983, horrified by the devastation that warfare and famine had visited on his homeland.
Yes, the abuse they have revealed is disgusting and appalling and it is right that it should be exposed and that we should be horrified.
Most parents are horrified when they discover their children have been playing truant from school.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and seeing it practiced. Samuel Butler
She was horrified to discover that he loved Rose.
All movement was eradicated as a brilliant flash of blue-orange light illuminated their horrified faces.
The remaining living lambs, three of them, were bleating with a kind of horrified, pleading simper. THE LAST RAVEN
It would have horrified him to be called a piker, for his instincts were really lavish, and the economical habit an achievement in which he took a resentful pride. The Sisters-In-Law
A preview audience said they were horrified by the graphic nature of the scenes. The Sun
The next day Dale posted a blog defending his use of the word "slapper" and explained how, as a non-drinker, he is horrified by public drunkenness. The Guardian World News
We were horrified at/by the size of the bill.
For example, some people argue that Paul was horrified by certain practices of the pagan Greeks — such as pederastic homosexuality with minors, or homosexual prostitution, or homosexual rape of POWs and house-slaves, or men in heterosexual marriages going on “the down low” — but that he wasn’t necessarily condemning “egalitarian” homosexuality between free adultpeers. The Volokh Conspiracy » Criminal Charges Against Anti-Homosexuality Street Preacher Dropped in England
We were horrified at/by the size of the bill.
And I am enraged, horrified, livid that someone would doubt this.
I was totally horrified by the teatime set they served – soft-boiled eggs with eggshell fragments, soy sauce bottles with caps that fall off when you try to flavour your eggs Babycartercl Diary Entry
The news of the executions horrified us
In this, again, they resemble Swift, though they rarely share his horrified fascination.
Naturally, I suspect that all those taking part would have been perfectly horrified if anything like the drastic and negative economic cataclysms they spoke of with such relish actually happened to them.
The company was horrified to learn that the valve had been discontinued since it was critical to the continued production of their blood analysis products.
John seemed as horrified as I about his potential for violence.
They decide to sink the boat to ensure it can't be salvaged, and are horrified when British sailors scurry out onto the deck and leap into the vast and dark Atlantic as the vessel sinks.
She was apparently horrified by Stalinist collectivism and its brutality.
I'm not horrified by her passing around those cockies; I just find it immature and juvenile and shallow and revealing. Is That Legal?: Could Wyoming Send a Democrat to the House of Representatives?
But when Elizabeth heard the bells pealing to celebrate the death of Mary Queen of Scots, she was horrified.
Someone who is willing to force someone else to have sex with him is hardly likely to be the type of person to be horrified at how badl;y other people are suffering. Rape in the wake of Katrina (guest post by Mousehounde)
The move has horrified the nation's literati in a country where serious literature is a serious business and popular with the masses.
I have, over the years, become horrified at the overwhelming number of uncatalogued Old and Middle Irish manuscripts contained in repositories throughout Europe.
I was horrified at abuses of animal welfare regulations in the treatment of sheep being slaughtered at the premises.
Would you be horrified at the intrusion into your privacy?
They stared in horrified fascination as the snake approached.
HE served only two years of his prison sentence for a crime that horrified the nation. The Sun
There are, however, many decent Christians who are horrified and aghast.
Zeke watched horrified, as Zhore went limp and his energy faded into nothingness.
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
He was horrified by living, fleshly, female sexuality.
Horrified passengers saw Olive stumble and fall off a platform as an express roared in.
You can see why Melanie's parents are horrified, and, thanks to Bornheimer's intense likability, you can see why Melanie is entranced. Hilarious 'Worst Week' takes its best shot, and it works
Drawing inspiration from the anti-war movement, it aims to unite all those horrified by New Labour's programme of war and neoliberalism into a formidable electoral force.
They burn flags, destroy property, disturb the peace and then act surprised and horrified when they are confronted and arrested.
Poor William James, who invented this point of view, would be horrified at the use which is made of it; but when once the conception of objective truth is abandoned, it is clear that the question, ‘what shall I believe?’ is one to be settled, as I wrote in 1907, by ‘the appeal to force and the arbitrament of the big battalions,’ not by the methods of either theology or science. The Volokh Conspiracy » American Universities and the Nazis:
Horrified and overcome by guilt, Kate prays constantly for forgiveness and chastity.
I was horrified, and mourned the loss of its tiny webbed feet, but perhaps she just hastened its departure from a world no longer habitable for amphibious life forms.
And then made the mistake of telling them afterwards in broken english that she had just served them flopsy and mopsy stew, which they had so greedily consumed and then promptly burst into horrified sobs when they realized what they had just devoured. Wendchymes Diary Entry
There was a time when such confinement would have horrified me. Times, Sunday Times
But they seemed horrified already, already they were immobilised. THE SCAR
The dad was horrified when he discovered where his son had been nicked, as he grew up in the area. The Sun
After hours of watching the black smoke billow over the top of the mountain, we stood horrified as the flames made their appearance.
She was horrified that someone had used her name and e-mail address to post racist slurs in a French online discussion group.
Britain, France and the other ‘democratic’ imperialist powers were horrified that people had done away with tyranny and rule by bosses and landlords.
I cannot express strongly enough how horrified I am at what has happened and its evil and terrifying portent for the future.
And he is horrified that if he had had opted for his son to have a general anaesthetic, which he was offered, the dental surgeon at Leeds Dental Institute could have operated on the wrong side.
There had been a great social divide and some were horrified at what they found on the other side. Times, Sunday Times
If that image horrifies you, be horrified. Times, Sunday Times
Kullianmull,394 indeed, though they poetized the pleasures of the flesh, would have been horrified could they have read the plays of Wycherley and The Life of Sir Richard Burton
Some women are horrified to suddenly discover porn on their partner's computer.
I was horrified that people would think I was dead and bury me alive.
At times you are watching with eyes-widening horrified fascination for what Doc Smith topping superweapon that he can come up with next. Superhero Prose Fiction: Cormac - 5 Line War
You would expect the governments of most democratic countries to be horrified by this prospect; but no.
Jenny had a horrified look on her face, one of fear, like a rabbit being cornered by a coyote.
Plenty of critics have charted the supposed slide of the cinema incarnation of James Bond into the politically correct Judy Dench's M, his boss, calls Bond a "sexist, misogynist dinosaur" in the 1995 film "Goldeneye", and they will doubtless note that in "Carte Blanche" Bond worries that an attractive female South African police office might construe a glance as sexist and is horrified to hear a fellow British agent using the word "coloured" to describe mixed-race South Africans. You Only Live About 23 Times
Ma was delighted with her trip, but she was disgusted with the girls for allowing me to embrace and kiss them -- and she was horrified at the 'schottische' as performed by Miss Castle and myself. Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete
I turned to Theo to apologize and was horrified to discover him weeping into a corner of the linen tablecloth.
The public is horrified by the mounting death toll and worried about how long the war will last. Times, Sunday Times
He seemed to be genuinely horrified at the prospect of causing embarrassment or disappointment or inconvenience to another person.
Here she tells how she was horrified to discover the terrible extent of the problem. The Sun
The first report was a mere listener ringing up about a horrified letter a friend of hers had sent her.
The remaining living lambs, three of them, were bleating with a kind of horrified, pleading simper. THE LAST RAVEN
Swearing at/in front of kids is definitely different from what I'm used to -- even as a foul-mouthed college kid I watched my language around kids I did slip up once while babysitting, however, saying "dang" in front of a promptly-horrified 5-year-old, who was mollified by my immediate pact with him promising that neither of us would ever swear again. :p OK, I get it.
Our modern passion for fact-collection and box-ticking rather than a deep comprehension of the world around us would have horrified him too. Socrates ? a man for our times
Once, on a three-months 'reaction-drive voyage from Yggdrasill to Loki, he had taught a couple of professors of extraterrestrial zoology to play _kriegspiel_, and before the end of the trip, he was being horrified by the callous disregard they showed for casualties. Uller Uprising
Ok, I'm horrified at the spellings, but on the first one--big crack through the middle plus someone swiped a dallop! Two Bee Red Allowed
Victims of crime must be horrified reading about yet another act of financial waste. The Sun
I was horrified at the thought of being late for my interview
I was shocked and utterly horrified. The Sun
Horrified by this trend, Steve Norman, a joiner from Berkshire, turned his home into a shelter for unwanted Rotties.
Oh, and our friend's daughter is doing post grad work in Berkley and her mother (a teacher) is horrified at the poor quality of university level education; so is her daughter! The Pink Dress
WITH REGARD to the drowning in Haga Haga on December 26, I was horrified to see the equipment the two lifesavers had to work with to save lives.
People were horrified at the desecration of the cemetery.
She said: 'We were horrified when we discovered. Times, Sunday Times
The psychiatrists, at all the briefings, had been adamant: morale would be low, the others would be horrified. THE SCAR
It wasn't one of those thinly-documented screeds; it was written by college educators horrified by PC speech codes, assaults on campus newspapers, and academic freedom.
You are horrified, you can not think straight, as you stare at the broken body.
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and seeing it practiced. Samuel Butler
They also knew that castaways could be dangerous; the survivors of a Portuguese wreck 100 years earlier had horrified the Xhosa by turning to cannibalism.
Horrified and repentant, he relaxed his hold and started to speak. LORD OF THE SILENT
John seemed as horrified as I about his potential for violence.
The sexy singer was horrified by the incident at London's Dominion Theatre on Friday night.
Nasty anon is probably one of those clueless moronic Jezebels who is clearly horrified by her own self. Why Anyone Who Says We Live In A Post-Feminist World Should Be Cuffed In The Head | Her Bad Mother
I covered my mouth, trying to muffle and stifle my horrified gasp.
But I confided in another friend and she was horrified. The Sun
I am horrified that thousands of pounds of taxpayer's money is being spent employing solicitors and barristers who are incompetent.
But I confided in another friend and she was horrified. The Sun
In nineteenth-century Paris young revellers would melt down chocolate and smear horrified passers-by with what they took to be excrement.
It took technicians over 20 minutes to engage the manual override as horrified friends watched.
Parents were horrified at the antics of chubby rocker Bill Haley and swivel-hipped Elvis Presley.
I hated the part where I had to quickly rein myself in, because my husband was looking at me, embarrassedly, making excuses to the horrified gate attendant. Eva Norlyk Smith, Ph.D.: The Secret Behind THE SECRET: Who Gets to Tell Your Story?
They are interrupted by a knock on the door and Val is horrified to find a bailiff officer on her doorstep.
They are interrupted by a knock on the door and Val is horrified to find a bailiff officer on her doorstep.
She was horrified by the repetition and was generally not happy with it.
Her surgeon was horrified by her injuries.
Other teachers and students were horrified at this blasphemy.
The Marquise is said to assist the beggarwoman out of pity; the Marquis is described as oddly horrified when he hears the story about a ghost, although he does not understand why — but rather than rounding out the representation of a situation, these points serve to give us the impression that we are being provided with just enough information to facilitate the most formal of links between sentences. Reading, Begging, Paul de Man

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