How to Use harrowing in a Sentence

harrowing

adjective

• By turns serene and harrowing, the West here brims with life.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
• Anyone who spends a lot of time on a bike has a harrowing tale to tell.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 May 2022
• Many harrowing accounts have emerged in the days since the attack.
  — Michael Schwirtz, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024
• Her back and legs were bruised from the harrowing escape.
  — Jack Healy, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2022
• In a harrowing 911 call, his wife can be heard begging for help.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 5 Aug. 2023
• Tran told a harrowing tale of her immigration to the U.S. in 1986.
  — Judy Bart Kancigor, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• The details that have come to light in recent weeks are harrowing.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 27 June 2022
• We are left with Auschwitz’s harrowing legacy and reminded of the full extent of the crimes of Nazism.
  — Armani Syed, TIME, 12 Jan. 2024
• But even in the best of the circumstances, the next several months might be harrowing.
  — Justin Lahart, WSJ, 28 July 2022
• Video taken from the beach showed the harrowing moments the small plane glided onto the shore.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 20 Mar. 2023
• What stands out to you about filming that harrowing scene?
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
• The scene in question is the most harrowing and difficult to watch of the TIFF curtain-raiser.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
• The North Riverside mall was the site of a harrowing point-blank fatal shooting that occurred in late May 2020.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 19 Apr. 2023
• The story behind the wound was even more harrowing in real life.
  — Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2023
• This is the harrowing story of how one mom scrambled to get help for her son and keep her head above water.
  — Hunter Clauss, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2024
• The fourth quarter has been a harrowing frame all season.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
• As harrowing as those three losses were for the Heat, Game 7 in Boston in many ways was as good as the Heat got all last season.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 23 June 2024
• But for others the journey to safety has been much more harrowing.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2024
• As such, the film depicts the harrowing truths of the way that caste systems are upheld, from slavery to lynching to genocide.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 7 Sep. 2023
• The Vibe: Still fairly harrowing, but also now quite vibey.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2023
• Even amid such harrowing stories of loss and grief, there have also been stories of hope.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 30 Dec. 2022
• The hours that followed, in her description, were harrowing in the extreme.
  — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2022
• The lush, harrowing melodies almost leave listeners in a trance.
  — Shahamat Uddin, Vogue, 12 June 2023
• All movies about 9/11 are, on some level, harrowing — the events were just too horrific.
  — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 30 June 2022
• The film takes place in 2019, nine years after Josh’s harrowing possession, and a lot has changed for the family.
  — Kelsey Lentz, People.com, 20 Oct. 2024
• News and social media images of the storms were harrowing.
  — Louis Sahagún, Anchorage Daily News, 20 Jan. 2023
• Both sides pressed tens of thousands of African migrant laborers to do the harrowing work of mining.
  — Gillian Brockell, BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2023
• Both pressed tens of thousands of African migrant laborers to do the harrowing work of mining.
  — Gillian Brockell, Washington Post, 5 May 2023
• Video and images from the harrowing scene showed the McLaren extraordinarily split in half.
  — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 10 Dec. 2024
• Even Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, more fantasy comedy than horror, has a harrowing birth scene.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 11 Jan 2025