How to Use horrible in a Sentence

horrible

adjective

• The crime scene was too horrible to describe.
• The team had a horrible season last year.
• He suffered a horrible death.
• He realized that he had made a horrible mistake.
• The lives of the saints to me are kind of like horrible fables.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2023
• And then with Delta, all the on-sales for the last month have been horrible.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 17 Sep. 2021
• The toll of this war is horrible and there is no end in sight.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 17 Apr. 2021
• The bad news is despite the win, the Crimson Tide looked horrible in many facets of the game.
  — Matt Stahl | [e-mail], al, 17 Sep. 2023
• Yes, a lot of great things have been done in the name of that flag, but so have a lot of horrible things.
  — Eric Dickerson, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2022
• Want is deep and big and horrible and it cannot be chased down.
  — Jennifer Gilmore, Harper’s Magazine , 13 Mar. 2023
• On her way up, Sara was met with a horrible smell and stopped.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 10 May 2023
• This looked like a horrible matchup for the Spartans when the bowl matchups came out.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 31 Dec. 2021
• There’s no doubt that over the last week, the pitching has been horrible.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2022
• That felt too close to the actual, horrible things in the world.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2022
• No one can any longer doubt the horrible intentions of the Nazi beasts.
  — Gordon F. Sander, Washington Post, 13 May 2023
• And then Princess Margaret’s horrible to you and all that.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2021
• She’s living in this place of self-loathing and shame and all these horrible things.
  — Danielle Turchiano, Variety, 3 Jan. 2022
• That’s sad and pathetic and horrible all at the same time.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 5 May 2023
• Both sides have done horrible things in the name of self-defense and revenge.
  — Landon Block, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Nov. 2023
• None of them were horrible looks, but there wasn’t a lot of paint touches.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 5 Oct. 2024
• That’s a long time, but in July and August, the rain is horrible.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 12 Sep. 2024
• The fact that the Browns are amazing in the end zone matches up well with the fact that the Chiefs’ defense is horrible inside the 20.
  — cleveland, 16 Jan. 2021
• The dessert was a prune meringue, and the boss suffered a horrible accident on the commuter train the next day.
  — Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
• That should have been the end of a horrible, widespread illness.
  — Will McCarthy, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
• Kennedy seemed more in it for the LOLs of the two being horrible for each other and at each other.
  — Vulture, 27 Apr. 2023
• That must have been the most horrible second half of a senior year.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2025
• And around this grotesque and horrible mask of death, the hair, the beautiful hair, still blazed like sunlight and flowed in a stream of gold.
  — Namwali Serpell, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2022
• How in the world did the city and county ever get into such a horrible spot?
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 July 2021
• Mat is wary, but drinks the tea, and is assaulted by visions of himself doing horrible things over and over.
  — Leigh Butler, TIME, 13 Mar. 2025
• This is really happening and these horrible things are happening and that this person doesn't want to be happening.
  — Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2025