horror story

noun

: an account of an unsettling or unfortunate occurrence

heard horror stories about recent layoffs

also : something unsettling or unfortunate

his childhood was a horror story

Examples of horror story in a Sentence

We've all heard horror stories about airlines losing people's luggage. Her childhood was a horror story.

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This film, made in the aftermath of Mahsa Amini’s 2022 death in police custody after she was arrested for her refusal to wear a hijab, is a thriller, a family drama, and a horror story. —

Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 4 Dec. 2024 Social media posts detail horror stories related to airlines' treatment of unaccompanied minors. —

Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 13 Nov. 2024 Minecraft has always been a blocky canvas for the human imagination; the game has inspired countless works of fiction, and many horror stories—now, AI has generated a haunted version of the game. —

Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024 But most of the horror stories setting a foreboding and ominous tone are anecdotal episodes — not evidence of any sort of widespread migrant crime wave. —

Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 1 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for horror story