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Example sentences for "horrific"

Lexicographically close words:
horribly; horrid; horrida; horridly; horridus; horrified; horrify; horrifying; horror; horrors
  1. The heaving, struggling, horrific picture was too grievous for description.

  2. For though peace hangs over us at home, I fear it is a traitor's peace at the best, and more horrific than war.

  3. It is not a heartening thing to go stumbling on hilltops in the dusk of an April evening, with black, horrific hill-slopes sinking on all sides.

  4. Even before hostilities had ended, public audiences throughout the world were stunned by film coverage of the liberation of Nazi death camps, which exposed for all to see the horrific consequences of racism.

  5. On his chest is a horrific picture of the Crucifixion in red, blue, and green tattoo.

  6. A steady monotone is the key of their telling, their voices rising only to hammer home some particularly horrific detail.

  7. But this creature was as impossible in its way as the horrific blue thing dragging it out of concealment.

  8. I should have known and been prepared, but how blind my friendship made me to the horrific implication of those repeated words!

  9. Less than a week after my departure from the city the first of the horrific head-hunting crimes was committed and the actual drama got under way.

  10. Horrific yells and screams could be heard by the men as they looked on from their distant position.

  11. Finding the hounds were too cautious and active to fall victims to his sharp horns, he pawed the earth, and uttered the most horrific bellowings.

  12. He could not have been stricken dumb more effectually had he come face to face with one of the horrific sprites described in the folklore of the hills.

  13. He passed his hands over his face as though shutting out some horrific vision.

  14. But half-way through a thicket of undergrowth, where he could no longer see the horrific eyes, his courage began to return.

  15. From time to time came terrified runners with horrific stories of the burning of villages, of massacre and rapine.

  16. Here was the sturdy Stoffel Brinkerhoff brandishing his quarter-staff like the giant Blanderon his oak tree (for he scorned to carry any other weapon), and drumming a horrific tune upon the hard heads of the Swedish soldiery.

  17. They were being made aware of horrific ways of dying and since it was so horrific there was no self-centeredness and movement by which to callously disregard it.

  18. Horrific odors were usually attributed to Kumpee and he cared to keep it that way.

  19. Sidenote: Two intrepid Earth-men fight it out with the horrific monsters of Zeud's frightful jungles.

  20. He revelled in the horrific school of melodrama.

  21. His astonishment would be so horrific that she flinched even from the thought.

  22. McLean looked mutely at her and shook his head, but within him horrific suspicion was raging like a forest fire.

  23. The dread notion possessed her that she might see Laurence Tollemache dashed to his death on those cruel rocks some sixty feet beneath, and she knew that, once witnessed, the horrific spectacle would never leave her vision.

  24. Now, my masters, you have heard a beginning of the horrific history of my lord and master Pantagruel.

  25. Here was the sturdy Stuffel Brinkerhoff branishing his quarter-staff, like the giant Blanderon his oak tree (for he scorned to carry any other weapon), and drumming a horrific tune upon the hard heads of the Swedish soldiery.

  26. For now the late dimpling current began to brawl around them and the waves to boil and foam with horrific fury.

  27. The horrific array of prickles presented as it digs an undignified retreat, and the tenacity with which it holds the ground, have given rise to the fiction that no dog is capable of killing an echidna.

  28. No creature at all conspicuous is safe, unless it is agile and alert, or of horrific aspect, or endowed with giant's strength, or is encased in armour.

  29. Increasing still the terrors of these storms, His jaws horrific arm'd with threefold fate, Here dwells the direful shark.

  30. Reality is a world that was to be capable of this--and how represent that horrific capability, historically latent, historically ahead of it?

  31. A horrific tintype of little Leo in tiny velveteen knickerbockers that fastened with large, ruble-sized, mother-of-pearl buttons up to an embroidered sailor blouse.

  32. The usual horrific hotel room of tight green-plush upholstery, ornamental portières on brass rings that grated, and the equidistant French engravings of lavish scrollwork and scroll frames.

  33. Diseased imagination could invent no creature more horrific of appearance than the tarantula.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horrific" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    appalling; astounding; atrocious; awesome; awful; baneful; beastly; dire; dread; dreadful; execrable; fearful; fell; formidable; frightful; ghastly; ghoulish; gory; great; grim; grisly; gruesome; hideous; horrible; horrid; horrifying; macabre; monstrous; morbid; redoubtable; rotten; shocking; terrible; terrific; tragic; tremendous; unspeakable; weird