HORRIFY in a Sentence

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

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 Meanings and Examples of HORRIFY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
horrify
 v.  fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  Nor did wild rumors of all sorts fail to exaggerate, and still the more horrify the true histories of these deadly encounters.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
2  Startled, at first horrified, at this lese majesty toward Atlanta's most beloved citizen, she stared reprovingly at him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Then she was horrified at herself for having such a thought and she turned pink.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  Blinking in the sunlight, her eyes fell on Melanie and she gasped, horrified.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  Full of an ecstasy which horrified her, she followed Kennicott and the girl who had stolen her place, followed them to the train, through the evening, the night.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
6  I remember how horrified we were at the sour, ashy-grey bread she gave her family to eat.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IV
7  The horrified neighbours rushed back to Cutter.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
8  Her husband horrified by the confession had Offett, who had already served four years, released and secured a divorce.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
9  Elzbieta was horrified, for she did not believe that the food out of the dumps was fit to eat.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
10  He waited in a sort of a horrified, listening attitude.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
11  She was horrified at her paleness, as she glanced into the looking-glass.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 13
12  I sometimes even have doubts of the existence of God, Levin could not help saying, and he was horrified at the impropriety of what he was saying.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
13  At one moment she was horrified at this indifference, at another she rejoiced at what had brought her to this indifference.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 4
14  This was the very thing she had been dreaming of, but now learning that it was possible, she was horrified.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 23
15  For an instant she had a clear vision of what she was doing, and was horrified at how she had fallen away from her resolution.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 24
Example Sentence:
1  His family were horrified by the change.
2  She was horrified to discover that he loved Rose.
3  Most parents are horrified when they discover their children have been playing truant from school.
4  We were horrified at the conditions prevailing in local prisons.
5  Even the police were horrified at the macabre nature of the killings.
6  He was horrified at the thought of his son prancing about on a stage in tights.
7  You are horrified, you can not think straight, as you stare at the broken body.
8  He is horrified to learn that his newly-discovered half brother is nothing but a cheap shyster.
9  The possibility of war is too horrifying to contemplate.
10  He went to great pains to show how horrifying the war was.
11  The horrifying conditions in the city's jails might appall you.