How to Use horror show in a Sentence

horror show

noun

• The trial has been a horror show.
• The half was a horror show all the way around for the Longhorns.
  — Peter Dawson, star-telegram, 14 Oct. 2017
• For most of the world the Covid-19 crisis is a horror show.
  — Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 31 May 2020
• While the sixth was a horror show, the evening started on a good note for Colorado.
  — Kevin Henry, The Denver Post, 8 Aug. 2019
• This was a bit of a horror show, with a side of dark comedy.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 23 Jan. 2018
• In the truth, it’s been a minute since Seattle has been anything less than a horror show for the Rangers.
  — Dallas News, 26 Sep. 2022
• Glennon's video playlist turned to the 2016 Bears season, a horror show to those who watched it live.
  — Rich Campbell, chicagotribune.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• The rest of the month was a white-knuckled horror show as Woodrow’s health lurched from crisis to crisis.
  — Rebecca Boggs Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
• Did everyone watch the debut of the new horror show on ABC last night?
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 26 Jan. 2017
• The grainy YouTube videos of old-time serpent handlers look like horror shows.
  — Julia Duin, WSJ, 12 July 2018
• The host of a late-night TV horror show believes a teen’s next-door neighbor is a vampire.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep. 2019
• The other day, after the horror show in Cleveland, Duffy watched four hours.
  — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 14 May 2018
• First, though, the horror show — which, like all the best horror shows, begins with no inkling of trouble.
  — Laura Collins-Hughes, New York Times, 4 Nov. 2020
• Why is there not a class-action lawsuit against all the bad actors in this horror show?
  — WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
• But rehearsing for the show has been anything but a horror show.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 22 Sep. 2023
• If that's not an option, show up for as long as required, then head home and strap in for a late night horror show.
  — Josh Wigler, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2017
• The Panthers looked so good early in the season, but Sunday was a horror show.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2021
• Denmark, the world’s largest mink exporter, has seen arguably the worst of this species-leaping horror show.
  — Zoë Schlanger, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2020
• What’s worse was her first thought after confronting this horror show: There must be more food here.
  — Richard Rys, Vulture, 30 Aug. 2021
• Members of the group have had a front seat at the ongoing horror show that has been DeKalb government.
  — Bill Torpy, ajc, 24 May 2018
• This sounds like the start of an inspiring buddy movie or a bleak dystopian horror show.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 9 Sep. 2020
• Another will be if what’s learned from the horror show of the Turpin home helps prevent or at least mitigate the next such tragedy.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 19 Jan. 2018
• After the Sunday hockey horror show, folks filled the Garden assuming the Celtics would make the world right again.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
• The only question remaining is this: Can Mixon turn the game Sunday into a horror show for the Rams?
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2022
• The bullpen’s horror show is a big reason why the Cubs were in a 0–3 series hole, but the Dodgers weren’t able to expose that group’s soft underbelly in Game 4.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Turns out, no — those nooks and crannies are also a total and complete horror show.
  — Olivia Harrison, refinery29.com, 24 May 2021
• Things were getting bad and the joggers in the outside lane began to shy away and avoid eye contact with the horror show happening over in lane one.
  — Chris Foster, Outside Online, 8 July 2021
• By many accounts, the film plays Charlie’s weight as an absolute tragedy and a visual horror show.
  — Sara Stewart, CNN, 21 Dec. 2022
• What had been sold to me as an Arctic safari through untouched tundra filled with frolicking muskoxen turned out to be a dystopian horror show.
  — Alexandra Owens, Robb Report, 27 June 2024
• Allen recalled witnessing a horror show in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Oct 2024