How to Use horror story in a Sentence

horror story

noun

• Her childhood was a horror story.
• We've all heard horror stories about airlines losing people's luggage.
• Was it because this is just one of hundreds of horror stories in the tax bill?
  — Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2017
• Love wonders how many other horror stories are out there.
  — Tony Dokoupil, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2017
• Some are scarred by their parents’ and siblings’ debt woes, and others by student loan horror stories in the news.
  — Teddy Nykiel, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2017
• No one ever came to me or told me horror stories with any real seriousness.
  — Maria Pasquini, PEOPLE.com, 15 Oct. 2017
• The movie provides an eerie and chilling prequel for what would later become a true-life horror story.
  — Mark Rapp, cleveland.com, 7 Dec. 2017
• Smith’s fears were not based on century-old horror stories about Reconstruction.
  — Helen Andrews, National Review, 18 Dec. 2017
• Meanwhile, commuters with horror stories about plopping down on a CTA seat soaked with a loathsome liquid aren't hard to come by.
  — John Greenfield, Chicago Reader, 9 Oct. 2017
• One of the stories is a horror story about a hole in the ground.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• At one end of the spectrum, there are the horror stories.
  — David Frese, chicagotribune.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• Some are horror stories, some have a tinge of film noir.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
• Some of my new friends had horror stories about their schools.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2020
• The Witch is a bonafide horror story set in New England during the 1630s.
  — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2022
• But the latest in Airbnb horror stories comes from one group's rental in the Bay Area, where things got creepy fast.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 21 Aug. 2023
• Three horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
  — Houston Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2019
• The most thrilling horror stories are those whose truth is inescapable.
  — Alex Davies, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2019
• But if that sounds like a horror story, or at least a tragedy, this new book is anything but.
  — Clea Simon, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
• The host is not the horror story of an absentee, out-of-state investor who doesn’t have any ties to a town.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2021
• As more horror stories about ICE turn up in the news, there are growing calls on the left to abolish the agency.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 27 June 2018
• Over the weekend, people who work at the store took to Reddit to share their horror stories, and, yikes.
  — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 4 June 2018
• Instead of hearing about the horror stories over and over, there’s hope on the horizon.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, refinery29.com, 28 June 2024
• The Mary Kay Letourneau horror story is a joke to these jokers.
  — Armond White, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
• But Miles and Boles want those horror stories to become relics of a bygone era.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 24 May 2018
• Please discuss this with a lawyer who can give you more detail about the horror story that may lie ahead.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024
• Revenant, like so many horror stories, begins on a rainy night.
  — Geoffrey Bunting, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
• Failure to ask the above is when horror stories surface, says Marin.
  — Maya Allen, Marie Claire, 31 July 2019
• Her mind games put a new spin on preteen horror stories.
  — Jill Pellettieri, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
• The story of Pinocchio was always a horror story for me – the doll coming to life and not behaving as he was meant to.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 16 Sep. 2024
• Unlike your typical film history doc, the film wastes little time with behind-the-scenes footage or production horror stories.
  — Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 21 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024