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How to use horrid in a sentence

22 example sentences · adjective, adverb

Horrid means bristling, rough, rugged. Example: “The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.”

Examples of horrid by meaning

adjectiveOffensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.

  • The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.

More sentences with horrid

  • The eye met a horrid sight. He met his fate.From the entry meet
  • Get that frump off – it's horrid!From the entry frump
  • Jeremiah Wright Jr. — a nutball like Robertson, blaming America for bringing on the horrid attack.2008 March 22, Timothy Egan, “Donner Party Democrats”, in New York Times. From the entry nutball
  • Every chance she gets, she makes horrid remarks about the pain I'm going to have to endure.1992, Julie Garwood, The Secret, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry cruel-hearted
  • Therefore, despite its political patriarchy, Athens cannot be considered—horrid word—a phallocracy.1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae. From the entry phallocracy
  • My room is a wretched, horrid one in the outskirts of the town.1918, Fyodor Dostoevsky, “Notes from Underground: A Novel: Part I: Underground”, in Constance Garnett, transl., White Nights and Other…. From the entry wretched
  • Members with a fascination for the horrid to look at the explanatory memorandum, which deals with fresh fruit and vegetables.1984, Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons, Parliamentary debates: Official report, volume 75, page 335. From the entry Alice-in-Wonderland
  • They’ve got a horrid gash instead of a thrilling thing.”1962 [1959], William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, New York: Grove Press, page 150. From the entry thing
  • A horrid mistrust of the whole house possessed me.1919, Joseph Conrad, chapter VII, in The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, […], →OCLC, part V, page…. From the entry possess
  • "It's horrid stuff, even when it's homebrewed!1914, Marie Corelli, Innocent: Her Fancy and His Fact, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN. From the entry homebrewed
  • The mangled head and trunk, and limbs, dumb in life’s last quivering gasp are the horrid subject of the epitaph.1900, C. Osborne Ward, The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest Known Period to the Adoption of…. From the entry acropolitan
  • The philobatic environment consists of friendly spaces littered with unpredictable objects; the ocnophilic world consists of objects 'separated by horrid empty spaces'.2017, Lynda Nead, The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain, New Haven, C.T.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page…. From the entry ocnophilic
  • His first touch was horrid – a hospital pass to Juliano Belletti – but from that moment on his eye-catching football was wonderful to witness.2009 (23 November), Mark Fleming "Kakuta puts rare talent on display", The Independent (London). From the entry hospital pass
  • She pulled off the paper and looked at what he'd bought her, what the horrid, arrogant, boot-burning, bossy pants had bought her.2006, Anne Grace, The Perfect Stranger, Berkley Sensation, →ISBN. From the entry bossy pants
  • Mercy me, that sounds positively horrid.2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Rogueport. From the entry mercy me
  • It was perhaps five in the morning when a voice spoke and he started up with a horrid jerk—the voice of that clairvoyante woman.1917, Algernon Blackwood, Day and Night Stories, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co. […], page 167. From the entry clairvoyante
  • It was just a plain navy blue Ralph Lauren and not some horrid Bill Cosby sweater from the eighties that some older gentlemen have a taste for.2008, Alix Strauss, Have I Got a Guy for You: What Really Happens When Mom Fixes You Up, Polka Dot Press, →ISBN, page 148. From the entry Bill Cosby sweater
  • O lovely green dragon of the new day, the undawned day, come, come in touch, and release us from the horrid grip of the evil-smelling old Logos!1930, D. H. Lawrence, Apocalypse. From the entry undawned
  • The Fascist poem, one may fear, will be a horrid little abortion such as one sees in a glass jar in the museum of some county town.1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own. From the entry abortion
  • 'e gived 'em up, an' repented somethin' horrid — there still bein' the buns to come — but Miss Soapy she gave 'im what- for-proper, she did!1912, Edward Burke, Bachelor's Buttons: The Candid Confessions of a Shy Bachelor, page 133. From the entry give someone what for
  • If some horrid man only starts the cry of “a mouse” when she mounts the ostrum, it will be case of “going, going—gone” with the fair auctioneeress.1900 January 20, Windsor and Richmond Gazette, page 13, column 1. From the entry auctioneeress

Meaning of horrid

  1. adjective Bristling, rough, rugged.
  2. adjective Causing horror or dread.
  3. adjective Offensive, disagreeable, abominable, execrable.

Full definition of horrid

Questions about horrid in a sentence

How do you use horrid in a sentence?
Horrid is used as an adjective and adverb. For example: “The other girls in class are always horrid to Jane.”
What is a short sentence with horrid?
“Mercy me, that sounds positively horrid.”
What does horrid mean?
Horrid means bristling, rough, rugged.

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