HORRIBLE in a Sentence

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225 example sentences for HORRIBLE, such as:

1. My shoulder is playing up horribly.
2. The effects of this disease are horrible.
3. This is such a flipping horrible picture.
4. I've got a horrible feeling she lied to us.
5. There was a horrible accident here yesterday.

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 Meanings and Examples of HORRIBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
horrible
 a.  exciting, or tending to horror or fear; hideous
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Of all the plagues with which the land of the Pharaohs were smitten one plague alone, that of darkness, was called horrible.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  We can have no idea of how horrible these devils are.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
3  It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  I quite understood; my only doubt was as to whether any dream could be more terrible than the unnatural, horrible net of gloom and mystery which seemed closing around me.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  I start at my own shadow, and am full of all sorts of horrible imaginings.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  As I appeared they all joined in a horrible laugh, and ran away.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  Suddenly I became broad awake, and sat up, with a horrible sense of fear upon me, and of some feeling of emptiness around me.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
8  There were a lot of those horrible, strong-smelling flowers about everywhere, and she had actually a bunch of them round her neck.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  I kept thinking over everything that has been ever since Jonathan came to see me in London, and it all seems like a horrible tragedy, with fate pressing on relentlessly to some destined end.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  You must be brave and strong, and help me through the horrible task.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
11  I suppose it is a part of the horrible curse that such is, when his touch is on his victim.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  How long this horrible thing lasted I know not; but it seemed that a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
13  As the Count saw us, a horrible sort of snarl passed over his face, showing the eye-teeth long and pointed; but the evil smile as quickly passed into a cold stare of lion-like disdain.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  For my own part, now that his horrible danger is not face to face with us, it seems almost impossible to believe in it.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew too well.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence:
1  It was absolutely horrible going up the hills 'cos they were really, really steep.
2  She's got a horrible little dog that yaps around your ankles.
3  The effects of this disease are horrible.
4  I've got a horrible feeling she lied to us.
5  There was a horrible accident here yesterday.
6  That horrible building lowers the whole tone of the neighborhood.
7  This is such a flipping horrible picture.
8  It is a horrible thing to see one person make another suffer.
9  Why, you have saved my life! - snatched me from a horrible and excruciating death!
10  You have saved my life! - snatched me from a horrible death!
11  Hamlet vowed he would avenge his father's murder and punish Claudius for his horrible crime.
12  Only an insane person could perpetrate such a horrible crime.
13  It seemed like a good idea at the time, and then it all went horribly wrong.
14  The toilets in that restaurant were horribly smelly.
15  My shoulder is playing up horribly.