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Sentence Examples Jonah and Sally lingered behind, holding dishrags over their noses to block the horrid smell of brimstone. And, as I looked at the classroom today, I wanted to resurrect that horrid Miss Dawe and give her a knuckle sandwich. At night, take a torch and you can get within yards of marsupials, including the faintly horrid Tasmanian devil. Make war as vile and horrid as you can, he reasoned, and people will feel all the less inclined to resort to it. Last year, it gave up 43 sacks, subjecting quarterbacks Patrick Ramsey and Tim Hasselbeck to a horrid battering. The very thought that I will be lumped in with lovers of such horrid dreck makes me physically ill. Similar thoughts occupied Sarah's mind as she took note of her horrid appearance again. The platform, we were told, was awash with horrid chemicals which would pollute vast areas of the pristine ocean. Chicken with a tarragon stuffing turned out to be mainly full of sausage meat and horrid. All the other spellings are just horrid and atrocious, and trendifying an extremely beautiful name. That horrid slop couldn't cure a common cold if it was blest by Pope Christ! We were nearing one of Italy's most horrid swamps, and the ground beneath us sank freely underneath our feet. And you just stop with that horrid and uncharitable thought that's forming in your head. History books tell us that wars are messy, chaotic and even nations fighting just causes make horrid moral mistakes and battlefield blunders. Might I also mention Look2Me is a horrid, nearly unremovable, piece of spyware. Dim-witted because education held no escape, unstylish because poverty stalks the abused, these people are the spat out remains of a horrid meal. Several had already spawned horrid brats, who they brought with them to meet their new mommy. Never the less, it also makes me extremely bitter and vindictive and say horrid things. Somerfield's own-label red burgundy used to be horrid, but the past few vintages have been full of elegant, smoky, plummy fruit. There was a hook where a picture once hung, with horrid marks where the picture had been. Show More Sentences Although this was a horrid sight and sound the constant attention the kids yearned for made me pay no heed to them. If a stray cat had wandered onto the field, it would have turned tail and looked for something less horrid. Unfortunately the dragons can't climb above the cloud ceiling so the five travelers are stuck in the horrid weather. I was shaken awake a few minutes later from a horrid nightmare which flew from my mind as I tried to grasp what I had dreamt about. Tielle nodded, and they left the suddenly horrid room with its gruesome corpse. What this ignores is the horrid possibility that the larger force will bring its full might to bear on the issue. She wished that she could wake up from this horrid nightmare, but no matter how many times she pinched herself, it hurt every time. Still others simply enjoy Poe's unmatched style that conjures up remarkably horrid mental images and brings on a wonderfully grim suspense. It's just sad and grim, a horrid reflection on our species' tendency to eschew compromise and go for the greed. His fingers moved and curled, showing his nervousness about the subject as he began to explain the horrid nightmare that tortured him so. The horrid images of mistreatment by military police being broadcast around the globe have already proved damaging to their interests overseas. For the past few months, she has been living a horrid nightmare after the sudden death of her ten-year-old daughter, Nicole Pierre. That was almost a horrid idea, but something about it illuminated many other possibilities. While the quantity was minimal, it was good quality snow, properly frozen rather than the nasty slushy kind that feels so horrid on the skin. It was all he could do to keep from grimacing in disgust at the sight of those horrid yellow-brown teeth. When I first saw the album, the name conjured all kind of horrid musical possibilities in my mind. In other words, I have a horrid feeling that that nasty thing might come back. Also, my apologies for the atrocious spelling and grammar mistakes, they're horrid! After a horrid, torrid week in which all sorts of colourful allegations have been thrown at the Government, none of it appears to have stuck. Although the appearance of the young man was absolutely horrid, the one blue and one brown eye could never be mistaken. Show More Sentences It would've been terribly immature, and she would've felt horrid about it later, however it would sure make her feel better at the moment. We've all been through that horrid process of buying clunkers from guys in slick suits and even slicker haircuts. What with water problems indoors and the horrid wet weather outdoors, it's been a shut-in day once more. Many of the styles back in the day were simply horrid, amusing or plain bizarre. The captain slowed and ported the vessel to pass around the monolith, and everyone took a good look at the horrid idol. Most of the others left my life because I was, frankly, too scary and horrid. With the genie out of the bottle, it was only a matter of time before something more horrid would emerge. The sound is also there, although, like the first units, digitized speech is still horrid. To be fair, the horrid genius of the attacks was that no one could have predicted that hijacked airliners would be used as guided missiles. Sure, I could lose weight, I have been losing weight but I'm left with horrid empty hanging skin. She croaks, squeaks, howls, and whines her way through the role, nearly always off-key and most horrid. She backed up slightly holding her nose at the horrid smell that reached her nostrils. The scenarios I thought up were more horrid and gruesome than the whispers that still continued, growing in volume until I was sure I would go mad. Goodness knows what horrid things he saw and I fear that there's no knowing the totality or the extent of the images that remained in his memories. A mullet is a fish that tastes horrid and very few people like them. They were horrid, smelly, dirty and obstinate things that dominated your life right through every winter, and no-one who doesn't have to would even think of having one. He intends to woo her perfectly, by telling her how lovely she is, when she looks shrewish, how beautifully she plays, when she makes horrid noises, and more. Putting all horrid thoughts aside, she closed her mouth over the wound and swallowed the red liquid, not surprised at the bittersweet, metallic flavour to it. Outside, rain pattered against the sides of the wooden house and shutters to the windows, and Lon loathed joining the horrid weather, but had no other choice. His experimental jazz recordings were simply horrid, though I recognize that I think that only because I tend to regard the entire genre as horrid. Show More Sentences The Newscaster, reporting on the scene, tries to distract his audience from the horrid nightmare by relating an Englishman's views on Steel Tariffs. She couldn't help but think of thousands of horrid possibilities. She was pointing to a grotesque china clock and a horrid vase. It's not even that I secretly skip the horrid hair washing bath night. Several neighborhoods suffered periodically from horrid smoke and fumes. It was extremely unsatisfying and while it didn't spoil the good parts of the movie leading up to it, it sure put a horrid taste in my mouth as I finished watching it. She was snarling as if these were quite horrid things to say. I had goosebumps along my flesh because of the horrid cold of the room. Removing choice is bullying and seems a horrid basis on which to anchor your relationship. Andrew's slightly parted lips were resting uncomfortably on the back of her neck, his horrid breath and snores now directed quite frankly right at her nose. I rely of course on their innate decency to not tell of the horrid things they have seen, or hopefully ask me for hush money before publicising the truth. The horrid images of her nightmare have disappeared for the moment. Elsewhere, in the outside world, sad, horrid times are upon us, with a fearsome outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among sheep and cattle right across the Kingdom. The 19th century, though, was a 100-year dirge from one horrid epidemic to another. Most airport bars are horrid places, full of loud gross people using the trip as an excuse for a messy afternoon buzz, or some sweaty solitary types tamping down their fears. Sofia tells them about the horrid and rancid conditions in which she lives, with fleas, vermin, roaches, and about her job cleaning the dirty sheets. This game was played in horrid conditions and the stiff breeze that blew from one corner flag to the other made point taking arduous even at the best of times. I was wearing the standard graduation robe in a horrid red colour. Your distasteful language is almost as horrid as your appearance! He treated the poor man terribly, and Cedric felt horrid about it. Show More Sentences No doubt priggery is a horrid thing, and the more moral the horrider. Which is a pity, considering how horrid, clunky and dated they all are. This world is a horrid cancer that no decent soul should ever partake from. And bringing this home for all was the horrid beheading of American journalist James Foley. Revisit that horrid 1997 Psycho redo, or the misguided ABC miniseries version of The Shining that came out the same year. We started to rebuild the porch, which turned into taking off the horrid pebbledash which morphed into the upstairs windows being replaced. She pulled off the paper and looked at what he'd bought her, what the horrid, arrogant, boot-burning, bossy pants had bought her. With the added suggestion of her goggles it reminded her pupil of the polished shell or corslet of a horrid beetle. She's cruel-hearted, Judith. Every chance she gets, she makes horrid remarks about the pain I'm going to have to endure. Master would keep this lacerated young woman tied up in this horrid situation four or five hours at a time. Road accidents in Lebanon, uncurbed, had become a dreadful menace, nay a horrid fact nationwide. Thou hellish Dog, Depart, or I will amand, ablegate, and send thee to some vast and horrid Desert. Also the Daemon belched forth most horrid and nefandous Blasphemies, exalting himself above the most High. O lovely green dragon of the new day, the undawned day, come, come in touch, and release us from the horrid grip of the evil-smelling old Logos! I was the stroppiest cow and I have put myself off having children, I was so horrid. Now Irish adoptees are desperate to find out about a doctor who closed the mother-and-baby home after he discovered the horrid practices. Most horrid of all was Kinsey's recruitment and protection of pedophiles who sexually tortured hundreds of children and even small infants. Parkinson's Disease is a peculiarly horrid affliction for sufferers much saintlier than he was. The horrid scenes I then witnessed, I must remember all my life long. My room is a wretched, horrid one in the outskirts of the town. Examples from Classical Literature And yet I cannot believe that God would have visited their presumptuousness upon me with such horrid irony. That sack of Capua is one of the most horrid pages in the horrid history of sacks. Go near that horrid old man who fastens one rheumy eye on you while his slobbery chin shakes like a huge jelly? And then, just at that last goal didn't that horrid Jumbo make a terrible and cruel swing at snoopy's ankle, just as he passed. Then the final crash, the horrid wave of pain and the sear of the flash-fire. O do not join with the sons of Belial in this unnatural, horrid wickedness! Wherein our men are guilty of the most horrid cowardice and perfidiousness, as he says and tells it, that ever Englishmen were. I took the whip from our young driver and lashed the horrid animals as hard as I could. What are the people doing in the dark, with the waxen images and the horrid crucifixes? No chance of thrips flourishing unsuspected in this house, nor of slugs following their horrid appetite from pot to pot unnoticed. The tertium quid pulled his moustache, and replied that horrid people were unworthy of the consideration of nice people. The horrid shrieks of the Chouette served to place the copestone on the fury of the Schoolmaster. This horrid stuff gives the maddening excitement which makes a Malay run amok. I thought I'd take off my flannelette petticoat, only the horrid strings got into a hard knot. The butter on the plates was horrid, and instead of the proper drying-cloth she got hold of a painting-rag, with turps on it. The bears came next, horrid cunning white things, and turning in their toes like that does give them such a frumpish look. In the midst of this horrid uproar, a sudden, swift flash and down fell the liberty pole. He leaned forward in the saddle and ogled the bug-killer with horrid significance. He felt sure he should cordially hate this horrid, interesting, interloping fellow, Sam's brother. In a horrid, tongueless way, Stock fired the other to act, and staggered back into the cabin. Show More Sentences They are horrid things, for they are never happy but when they are swilling ale. There are also found the steep and horrid Grampian hills, which divide the province. It is horrid to stay home with nothing to do that's int'resting. There were four protruding fingers and a horrid red, spongy surface where the thumb should have been. He had been kicking up horrid stinks for some time in his study, till I suppose some fellow told Mary, and she told the Doctor. I wore horrid pink glasses fixed around the back of my head with elastic and I hated it when boys called me four eyes or cross-eyed. Already had his fair fame been tarnished by one horrid scene, and in circumstances fearfully resembling those under which he how found himself. Thus she escaped not only punishment, but even the pain of being arraigned before a court for her horrid crime. Have I told you that, since the cramming for this last horrid exam. They were horrid places, where men got intoxicated, and shot each other in bar-rooms, and used bad language. He was with that horrid Mr. Seaver, and I never liked him, never! It was as though my memories of all Jonathan's horrid experience were befooling me. It is also rumored that she is, some way, a very distinguished person, reduced by those horrid revolutions of which they have so many in Europe. But these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips. We arranged on Monday that I should spend two days with Aunt Judith instead of going with him to Birmingham to that horrid Trade Congress. In addition to the pain of separation, there was the horrid dread of falling into the hands of Master Andrew. Now she was squaring and thickening and looking horrid, like Mr. Hancock. There's a slight post-holiday tawniness rather than the usual murky grey and my horrid chest lines have softened almost to nothing. I say, Mart, what is the use in being so horrid cross all the time? You should have told me all about this horrid thing in the first place. Show More Sentences The smell of burning flesh was in the air, and horrid shrieks. The aspect of these cliffs is so wild and horrid, that it is impossible to behold them without terror. He addressed himself to the figure with the immobile, horrid face. So spake our Morning Star, then in his rise, And, looking round, on every side beheld A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Their hearts had long ago ceased to be impressible by horrid fancies. I was confronted at last, as never yet, with all the risk attached even now to sounding my own horrid note. They cut their grain with a horrid machine that mows down whole fields in a day. When I think of the real thing you can't imagine what a horrid cold fluttery feeling comes round my heart. Then Mali, our new servant, came in, and she told us something horrid. The horrid thing reserves for us most 147 cruel and matchless rigours. There's one comfort, the baby is well and happy, and does not have to occupy this nursery with the horrid wall-paper. And at the very moment of that vainglorious thought, a qualm came over me, a horrid nausea and the most deadly shuddering. But the horrid truck had brought them unmarred to their present position. And trusting and strong in faith he had gone about his business, the while a black shadow hung over him and a horrid Fate waited in his pathway. I fear to think of her, off on the wolds near that horrid place. He gets cross and rough, and disrespectful to his father and mother, and plagues us girls, and is so horrid I almost hate him. As my sword went up to end her horrid career her paralysis left her, and with an ear-piercing shriek she turned to flee. The noise broke in raucously upon that horrid gurgling sound without. Having given that advice, he returned to his room, and shut out the horrid fresh air with a loud exclamation of relief. He was a horrid creature, not like a human being at all, but resembling rather some crag that stands out boldly against the sky on the top of a high mountain. Show More Sentences At heart they hate their horrid fates, and so wreak their poor spite on me who stand for everything they have not, and for all they most crave and never can attain. Nearer and nearer waltzed Gagool, looking for all the world like an animated crooked stick or comma, her horrid eyes gleaming and glowing with a most unholy lustre. I'm really getting quite fond of the big room, all but that horrid paper. This horrid species of torture may remind the reader of that to which the Spaniards subjected Guatimozin, in order to extort a discovery of his concealed wealth. With drooping shoulders and dull eyes Tarzan stood gazing dumbly at the insensate panel which hid from him what horrid secret he dared not even guess. His horrid crime was not even submitted to judicial investigation. It was followed by a stillness apparently as deep as if the waters had been checked in their furious progress, at such a horrid and unusual interruption. So horrid was the causeless rage of the crooked creature, that the clerk came over a cold thrill, and took to his heels until he was out of shot from stone or word. Hairy bodies strained and struggled against his own smooth hide as he battled in grim silence against these horrid foemen in the darkness of the pits of ancient Aaanthor. Rasping up on either side, with oars trailing to save them from snapping, they poured in a living torrent with horrid yell and shrill whoop upon the defenceless merchantman. Upon either side we saw grim death, assuming the most horrid shapes. I remember father had a man that was so lazy he would run away just to get rid of work, and lie round in the swamps, stealing and doing all sorts of horrid things. These, in their turn, cursed back at the blind miscreant, threatened him in horrid terms, and tried in vain to catch the stick and wrest it from his grasp. In a hundred places they had applied the torch, and columns of dense smoke were rising above the city as though to blot out from the eye of heaven the horrid sights beneath. Scribble Scamp A Scribble Scamp's a horrid girl Who scribbles everywhere. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of horrid? Words that rhyme with horrid What is the adverb for horrid? What is the adjective for horrid? What is the noun for horrid? Translations for horrid Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words horribly horribles horribleness horrible horrendously horrendous horridly horridness horrific horrifically horrified horrifies 6-letter Words Starting With h ho hor horr horri