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Example sentences for "horrified"

Lexicographically close words:
horrid; horrida; horridly; horridus; horrific; horrify; horrifying; horror; horrors; horrour
  1. He was horrified by the terror that was in her eyes.

  2. He did not know why the sound horrified him.

  3. He is horrified by details to which the Spaniards have become as accustomed as hospital nurses, whose finer sympathetic emotions of pity are deadened by repetition.

  4. Mr. Stokes sprang from his chair and, with clenched fists, stood angrily regarding the horrified Mr. Bell.

  5. He was appalled and horrified at the discovery.

  6. Lawry bent on his oars again, horrified by the accident.

  7. In spite of the triumphant feeling that victory, after a mortal conflict, inspires, I was immediately horrified by the certain consequences of his death.

  8. She assured me that, horrified as she naturally was at the event, her paleness was purely the effect of a three months' absence from me.

  9. Then he glanced over her head, his horrified attention centered upon the group on the floor.

  10. Miss Shellington's face was as pallid as death, and her horrified look at Everett brought Fledra to her senses.

  11. While busily engaged in trying to push the ladder down, I was horrified to find the bear already upon it, coming my way.

  12. The horrified observer at once left the telescope and informed the hotel proprietor, and in just under the hour four guides with ropes had reached the spot and rescued her.

  13. Within two hours of their arrival the whole party had left the scene of this shocking tragedy, Livingstone being so horrified that he could not remain.

  14. Horrified by news of President Lincoln's assassination, and the attempt to murder Seward.

  15. I ate the hard fare, and was once horrified by finding most of my teeth loose.

  16. On the day when the great beam was to be fixed in its place,[602] among the friends and relatives who arrived to offer their congratulations, he was horrified to see the oilman walk in.

  17. The horrified Chang now beheld a huge serpent coming out of the bushes near by, and immediately ran behind a large tree for shelter, hoping the reptile would not see him.

  18. He therefore took refuge in an old temple; but, when morning came, he was horrified to find that the treasure had disappeared.

  19. The offending traveler, horrified at what he had done, waited to hear from the nervous man.

  20. He was horrified to find entered in the book for the three days consecutively, "The first mate is drunk to-day.

  21. Sloebury, even the most advanced portion of it, had been horrified at the thought of whist before dinner when the captain first suggested it, but that innocent alarm had long since melted away.

  22. In the mean time explain to me why you should be horrified at a step which better men than yourself take every day.

  23. Nothing of the kind had ever come his way before, one could see, and he was just horrified at the thought.

  24. Unheeding them all, Richmond made his way through the horrified group, entered the drawing-room, laid his burden on one of the sofas, and seizing the bell rope rang a peal that brought half a dozen servants rushing in at once.

  25. We are six leagues from a chemist's shop, and there is nothing to be had; I am horrified that they should think of building in such a country.

  26. Barante who has been absent for three and a half years, was astonished and horrified by the general degradation, especially in political morality, which is obvious here.

  27. At nine o'clock in the evening we reached Brignoles, but were horrified by the dreadful filth of the inn and resolved to continue our journey.

  28. The Piccadilly Magazine is very respectable and all that sort of thing, but the governor is one of the good old-fashioned, conservative fellows, who would be horrified if he saw my name figuring in it.

  29. The Government used to hang them, but the populace were by no means horrified at the crime.

  30. He had seen too much of the early life on the prairie to be horrified by the part this courageous girl had taken in her blood-relative's interests.

  31. The three moved away from the crowd, which they left horrified at what it had heard, and eagerly discussing and enlarging upon the sanguinary stories of Thompson.

  32. Jim's lips parted, and a horrified amazement found vent in words.

  33. Then, as the man drew nearer and Lablache saw the horrified expression of his face, hope went from him, and he feared the worst.

  34. Then his beady eyes rested on the horrified faces of Jacky and her lover.

  35. His horrified thoughts were expressed in the look of fear that was in his lashless eyes.

  36. He was gazing with eyes which expressed horrified amazement at the sight of the crouching figure of Jacky Allandale.

  37. The recollection of having entered upon his ministry by climbing through a window horrified him.

  38. Even the soldiers were horrified at the awful threat.

  39. When, many years later, the horrified residents of the fashionable thoroughfare beheld ground broken and the abortionist's mansion gradually raising its brazen front, their indignation knew no bounds.

  40. Sometimes a collection of plates, containing hideous representations of dreadful eruption, and sores covering all parts of the body, are submitted to the patient's horrified inspection.

  41. Some years since respectable New York was startled and horrified by the recitals of criminal life, which, in the fulfillment of a disagreeable public duty, the daily newspapers printed in their news columns.

  42. I remember how horrified we were at the sour, ashy-grey bread she gave her family to eat.

  43. The greater proportion of the populace were horrified at this dreadful event; but some were not yet satiated with blood.

  44. As I bent down to pick up a key, I was horrified to see two large sticks of gelignite perched perilously on the edge of a shelf.

  45. When I was shown the parts I was horrified to see that there was no circuit diagram or instructions of any sort.

  46. Panfilo, it seemed, had encountered his companion purely by chance, and was horrified now to learn that his newly made friend was wanted by the authorities.

  47. Ed's behavior had shocked and horrified her; she was still half paralyzed at his treachery; nevertheless, her mind was clear, and she was determined to avert a tragedy if possible.

  48. They were approaching the hamlet, when, in some soft ground near to a pool of water, their guide uttered a horrified exclamation as he stooped to examine the pug of some animal very freshly made in the mud.

  49. I went away from the door and sat down horrified at the man's madness and audacity.

  50. The prison governor went away; such an oath horrified him.

  51. He represents Strafford as horrified by the news and driven in this extremity to suggest the desperate measure of debasing the coinage as a means of obtaining funds.

  52. Wentworth, horrified at the way in which a war with Scotland has been precipitated, carries his point, that Parliaments should be called in Ireland and England.

  53. Would she, in the presence of the Bishop's horrified disapproval, be able to see him as she had been seeing him now?

  54. Safe in her room she was horrified at herself for such a panic.


  55. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horrified" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aghast; ashen; astounded; awestruck; blanched; cowed; frozen; horrified; intimidated; pallid; paralyzed; petrified; scared; shocked; stunned; stupefied; terrified; undone; unmanned; unnerved; unstrung