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    Use "horrify" in a sentence

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    1. ‘Surely not!’ I protested, horrified at what he is suggesting


    2. ’ I said, horrified


    3. ’ I said, horrified at this news


    4. His mouth is agape in horrified astonishment


    5. ‘Knew what?’ I half whispered horrified, knowing the answer, but dreading it all the same


    6. though it has to be said she is as horrified as I am when she hears about his state of mind


    7. ‘Would I have to testify?’ I asked, horrified at the thought of seeing Dan again


    8. When I see Rose my resolve not to tell anyone nearly collapses, but the thought of how horrified she would be stops me and I merely feel a traitress as she gives me a quick hug and says she hopes I feel better soon


    9. I have to say that she was horrified when she heard that you’d been attacked – she’s been seriously scared, Karalintze … not that I’d want to excuse her action or in any way minimise the awful attack you experienced, but she never intended you any harm


    10. "It was really bad of me to leave Desa on that mountain wasn't it?" Alan was horrified by the thought of something like that happening to Desa

    11. ‘Would they do that?’ I asked horrified at the thought


    12. 'No, no,' Omi said, horrified at the idea of eating in a Muslim home


    13. Naria was horrified; these were just young boys, unsure of what was going on, frightened half out of their minds


    14. ‘Oh, I hope not!’ I said, horrified


    15. ‘My belief is that she had been brought up to believe that women shouldn't enjoy sex and that her discovery that she did horrified her


    16. I think she was more than a little horrified when Bunty showed her independence by getting that job at the Embassy


    17. Horrified, Chrissie watched, one hand covering her mouth, as Chas hauled himself out of Ozzie’s grasp, launching himself at Mickey yet again


    18. Guzkat looked horrified, ‘I’ll tell her that you


    19. Billy mentioned in passing as they munched their toast that all the woodwork would need to be both washed down and then sanded … that had set a horrified Chrissie off suggesting that they should start with the walls, the need to apply paint to something … to make her mark on the room so very strong in her


    20. The back of her legs had made contact with the bed as her horrified eyes had watched Ozzie negotiating the remains of his friend through the doorway

    21. I suppose some would take the ‘nudge-nudge, wink-wink’ leering school of thought but others, like Terry, would be horrified


    22. When I think of it cold-bloodedly, I’m pretty horrified myself


    23. He had been taught to be horrified if a girl undressed in his presence, but beyond the initial shock there was a bit of a thrill and then she was just as beautiful as ever, maybe even more so


    24. unsated and reached for the horrified mother-in-law


    25. The stepmother and the two sisters were horrified and turned pale with anger


    26. horrified to see that the man was smiling, and felt sure


    27. Horrified, she quickly withdrew her hand


    28. “Not flowers, anything but that” the giant looked horrified


    29. If I did pay tax I would be horrified that they was spending my hard earned cash on making gray pig-men


    30. However, I was mostly horrified by the realization that Ash was pulling away from me

    31. “There's more?” Izzy was horrified, but nodded for me to continue


    32. with the pro-life movement are rightfully horrified by the pictures of aborted


    33. Lunarey was horrified


    34. When I first started my internet marketing, I was horrified by all the things I was told I needed to consider in order to select a niche that I was sure was going to be a good one


    35. My family was horrified


    36. It took them a few more minutes to reach its edge and they were initially horrified when they discovered what had caused the ditch


    37. Torbin knew he ought to feel horrified, disgusted with himself that he’d been so intimate with that creature messing with his mind


    38. I know what is going to happen and I desperately try to shout a warning to him but I know as well that I can’t and I watch horrified as the machine gun traverses and the bullets stitch across his chest leaving blooms of red against the material


    39. Rogan followed Sebastian’s gaze, his face turning a shocking gray color before he looked at the floor, horrified by the situation and the audience that was there to witness it


    40. The horrified “Oh, No!” was spoken by both at the same time

    41. When His brothers and sisters arrived, they were horrified at His appearance


    42. The horrified look on their faces as they contemplated what Jesus said was almost more than I could handle


    43. ” I was horrified and didn’t know what to say it was bad enough that Frank had lost one brother but now to have one that was crippled was a bloody nightmare


    44. ! Shelagh was horrified and ashamed


    45. I sat there rooted to the spot and horrified at what I was witnessing and then the screeching started in earnest a long drawn out wail that seemed to go on and on


    46. like… I grimaced, horrified at the discovered identity of the animal


    47. ” She looked horrified at this and responded by saying


    48. Raven, horrified, stepped away, his back pressed to the wall as they passed


    49. There was now a complete and horrified silence, as the whole congregation tried to take stock of and make sense of what in the name and house of God was going on


    50. “That’s heartless,” uttered Coal, horrified that people could buy, sell, and ransom other folk in such a cold and cavalier manner












































    1. some way that horrifies or disgusts us


    2. China horrifies through its dictatorship over anything, spending time in destructive lies to clear their way


    3. “When the word slave horrifies us like the word nigger, then we will have begun to grasp poverty


    4. The thought horrifies me, because now, even though I don't want to, I think there's a chance it could actually be true


    5. The only thing that still horrifies me is the ending of


    6. He first visits Hell, and the scene he discovers there horrifies him


    1. This might horrify family members or a parent figure, but it works


    2. to commit these base acts of savagery just to horrify the local


    3. horrify the living and bring an eternity of misery


    4. Unfortunately, though this vagueness helped unite the delegates, it has been abused by our government in a way that would horrify the founders


    5. "'You horrify me, Trevor!' I cried


    6. The death of these children would horrify everyone who heard about it; for the victims’ parents, the very idea of a driverless car would become repugnant


    7. He whispered, “Anne, what I’m about to ask will horrify you, repulse you


    8. Nor did wild rumors of all sorts fail to exaggerate, and still the more horrify the true histories of these deadly encounters


    9. But what is there to wonder at, what is there so peculiarly horrifying in it for us? We are so accustomed to such crimes! That's what's so horrible, that such dark deeds have ceased to horrify us


    10. What ought to horrify us is that we are so accustomed to it, and not this or that isolated crime

    1. Rose relates a horrifying tale about the bombs which were dropped … some of her family were killed in Bristol in an air raid aimed at one of the factories … and she was also anxious about Wally as they were engaged by then


    2. ‘The reports of the eruption are horrifying


    3. “You shall fear me! I am evil incarnate! I am a horrifying monstrosity contained inside a child’s plaything! Why does that not terrify you? I am the Terrifying and Terrible Lord Ursa!”


    4. The certainty of the future and the echoes of the past were more than he could face, more horrifying than a world of dead


    5. This is the tale of Horrifying Hippo and the Courageous Cleaners


    6. Horrifying Hippo, quite representative of his clan, was regarded as one of the most dangerous species in Africa


    7. When other animals saw him hanging out with his mouth wide open and those beady eyes staring and glaring out in their direction, that was a clear sign that Horrifying Hippo was feeling threatened and would take any measures necessary to defend himself


    8. So as you don’t get such a bad overall impression of his species, Horrifying Hippo spent most of his days in peace and harmony with his surroundings (with his mouth closed!) and we thus shouldn’t be dissing him since in reality he was sort of an all-round good dude


    9. Around dusk every day when things were cooling down a bit, Horrifying Hippo would head up onto the land areas to do some serious grazing of the short grasses to be found, which represented the principle source of his diet


    10. Being primarily an herbivore himself, Horrifying Hippo would nip and pick on a variety of other plants that aroused his sensorial interest too, even enjoying an occasional side dish of the carcasses of dead animals although by nature he was not carnivorous nor a stalker and hunter like some of the tigers and other big pussycats in his environment

    11. Even though Horrifying Hippo spent much of his daytime hours happily trouncing around in the mud, he did not ignore the importance of his personal hygiene and thus took pride in both his overall appearance as well as the health of his organism


    12. Horrifying Hippo would simply open his mouth wide—but in this case, with a special body position that would clearly communicate that he was not feeling threatened but inviting the Cleaners to give him a hand—and with that, a whole school of the rambunctious, proficient little helpers would scurry over and begin their laborious process with great dedication and skill


    13. Without a doubt, Horrifying Hippo was a magnificent, captivating sight to be seen when all groomed up from head to toe!


    14. There was a swirl of acrid smoke, accompanied by a horrifying hiss


    15. She feared that he might have been a member of Lady Dread, the mob gang who's known for their brutal acts of torture and mutilation, or one of the Ferals, who fulfil their horrifying desires on their victims, whether they're sexual or masochistic


    16. Carius moved closer to her on the ground, eager to make sense of all that had been happening, all that he had seen and heard in some very bewildering and horrifying recent days


    17. He would stare at the murmuring sea for hours at a time, lost in the many faces looking back - including his own - and rifling through memories both pleasant and horrifying


    18. Something changed that would once have seemed like a horrifying prospect: he was beginning to feel like a part of the ship


    19. The Lord Jesus Christ offered his lofty position up to be born into a human body, to be raised in a poor family and to innocently die a horrifying death on a cross, so that we can be absolved of all our sin and be brought back into the relationship with God that he initially intended


    20. Only the horrifying alternative would provide the final incentive to become a part of a new cybercommunity

    21. But the horrifying, death-rendering crunch


    22. It was at once horrifying and intriguing


    23. It is horrifying situation when the majority of citizens in a civilised country cannot trust its own police force! And now we see with the SAPS (who replace the SAP), that history is repeating itself


    24. tracks to a horrifying truth which is confronted by inspired people


    25. Thesa's black form continued to flit in and out of the enemy's lines, gouging here, slashing there, hard to see in the shadows cast by the tall walls of the labyrinth, but he could do little to stop his comrades from falling around him with horrifying regularity


    26. The massacre at My Lai was one of the most horrifying outrages of the US-Vietnam War


    27. Anyone alive at the time remembers the horrifying images of South Vietnamese fleeing during the fall of Saigon, and US helicopters being dumped off US ships because the ships were overloaded with Vietnamese refugees


    28. ” Herminia’s pleas for mercy and horrifying shrieks of agony reverberated in Beth’s head as other questions about log barges, kilos, Boston and forged checks, all of which she had no answers for, were fired at her


    29. It was too important and too horrifying


    30. Except for nuclear war, this scenario is the most horrifying possibility in American history that luckily never came true

    31. Notorious outfits like Quantrill’s Raiders and Angry Anderson’s carried out mass murders of civilians that were so horrifying, the Confederate leadership disavowed them


    32. New identities and traveling incognito didn’t seem to offer the appealing sense of intrigue and excitement it had for her when first it was mentioned rather, as the conversation unfolded, the prospect became ever more complicated, prone to discovery and horrifying


    33. What if by some unforeseeable chance of misfortune, Earth developed star drive on her own? The thought was utterly horrifying


    34. The step he took towards her seemed far more horrifying than if she had stood in front of a whole army of monsters


    35. I have a sudden, horrifying thought: What if she only married him because she was supposed to, as part of her mission in the city? What if their entire relationship was a sham?


    36. Suddenly we are confronted with the horrifying reality that we can do nothing about “what could have or should have been”


    37. The scene was horrifying; black water was


    38. No one said a word as they watched the horrifying scene play out


    39. I turned around and squinted to see what could be so horrifying, but I could see nothing but trees


    40. “The horrifying details came on the same day court heard Williams was in his

    41. It was horrifying


    42. especially horrifying – it is all the same old horrifying shit


    43. would not be nearly as horrifying as I feared it might be


    44. Its campaigns manager, Justin Kerswell, said: ‗It is a horrifying possibility that dog


    45. Although the Toro de la Vega is undoubtedly horrifying to witness, what is


    46. The outlook is equally horrifying for bears which are kept alive


    47. It was horrifying and devastating at the same time


    48. The situation became horrifying


    49. It was horrifying to be in the middle of a hurricane - in complete darkness


    50. That raises the question – if the death penalty is immoral and if life without parole is immoral, then what is the possible judicial sentence for someone who has committed these horrifying crimes? The confusion over that question reveals an even deeper confusion at the worldview level













































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    Synonyms for "horrify"

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    "horrify" definitions

    fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised