How to Use horrid in a Sentence

horrid

adjective

• He's a horrid little man.
• People there are living in horrid conditions.
• In this horrid stretch, the A’s have given up 86 runs combined in their last 12 games.
  — Staff and Wire Reports, The Mercury News, 16 May 2024
• Go Ahead, Wine Raise a glass to celebrate the end of a horrid winter.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 21 May 2018
• Portland is far too good to have this poor of a record, as a horrid start to the season put them way back in the standings.
  — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 20 Jan. 2020
• This boiling fountain of death is one of the most dismal, low, and horrid places, on which the light of the sun ever shone.
  — Richard Campanella, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2018
• And then, like, 20 percent of them die in the nets because the conditions are so horrid.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
• There is plenty of nudity, of course — and not just live and in the flesh, so to speak, but in the form of a photo on the wall: a horrid crotch shot.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Aug. 2023
• The Gauchos’ downfall was their three-point shooting, a horrid 2 of 15 from behind the arc.
  — oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2019
• Whitehead tried to make sense of the horrid disclosures.
  — Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2019
• The calls are getting louder in the wake of the team's horrid performance Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
  — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 22 Oct. 2017
• Coming off of a horrid January, the Buckeyes have won five of their last six games to re-enter the top 25.
  — Stephen Means, cleveland, 17 Feb. 2020
• That's not enough of an offensive jolt to cope with Thomas' horrid defense.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• For a team with that horrid of a defense to make the Finals would be unprecedented.
  — Tim Bontemps, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2018
• My wife hanging on to the console, the boat bucking in a horrid blow, lightning crackling.
  — The Editors, Field & Stream, 23 Nov. 2023
• His 11 interceptions sound horrid, but as the film shows, a handful of those are not his fault.
  — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 16 Oct. 2019
• The fourth sign is expected to go up soon, better designed to deal with the horrid attacks.
  — Breanna Edwards, Essence, 26 July 2019
• One of the few members of this squad old enough to remember that horrid time is Luka Modric.
  — SI.com, 12 July 2018
• One of the issues throughout the team’s terrible stretch: a horrid defense.
  — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 June 2018
• The offense was horrid last week, a good sign for a Tampa Bay team needing a victory.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2024
• Jones seems to finally be on track following a horrid start to the season.
  — Esten McLaren, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 3 Dec. 2019
• The first order of business for the Razorbacks is trying to start hot to reverse the horrid trend from last season.
  — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2023
• There were colors, jungle greens and browns, and that horrid noise — that blurring Matrix phone.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
• Horrid estimated the age range on Monday nights is about 21 to 45.
  — Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 23 May 2017
• The team showed great resilience after that horrid start, reaching the postseason and doing a fair amount of damage in the playoffs.
  — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 21 Feb. 2024
• Her succotash was horrid, but her pies were a thing of beauty, the best of all being a lemon where the meringue rose in soft billowy clouds halfway to heaven.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2018
• But this year’s horrid start pales in comparison to the previous three years.
  — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2019
• Both were key cogs in a Miami pitching staff trying to weather a horrid start.
  — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 May 2018
• Rather than sulk in his dressing room about the horrid weather conditions, the swagger-happy MC swam through his set a la Michael Phelps.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2017
• In coming to his rescue, activists were aiming as much to save gay lives as to embarrass the Brazilian government for its horrid treatment of gays and lesbians.
  — Omar G. Encarnación, Foreign Affairs, 11 Jan. 2016

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024