How to Use horrendous in a Sentence

horrendous

adjective
  • Her taste in clothes is horrendous.
  • The pain of not being able to talk to them is horrendous.
    — Susan Mallie, CBS News, 12 May 2018
  • The Bears’ defense is horrendous, and the Eagles could move the ball at will.
    — Tanner McGrath, Chicago Tribune, 18 Dec. 2022
  • At Kim Jones’s show at the Palais Royal the heat was horrendous.
    — Luke Leitch, Vogue, 22 June 2017
  • Fame can be so horrendous, but there are parts of it that rock.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The Chiefs’ tackling was horrendous against the Raiders.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 27 Oct. 2017
  • Jeff Green and Davis were horrendous in their new roles.
    — Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
  • And that kept him alive for 53 years, in spite of a horrendous diet.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2025
  • The Orioles are in the midst of a horrendous season, and that has been reflected in the stands.
    — Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 26 June 2018
  • Lots of people want to go out but not in those horrendous seas.
    — sacbee, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Deeply disturbed by the tragic fires and the horrendous loss of life around the Wellington PMB area.
    — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 6 Nov. 2021
  • There's a whole bunch of things that happened that were just horrendous.
    — Nikki Battiste, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2020
  • New York has won two straight and three of four after a horrendous start.
    — Tom Withers, ajc, 24 Apr. 2021
  • New York has won two straight and three of four after a horrendous start.
    — Tom Withers, courant.com, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The Reds have been scratching their way back from their horrendous start for 10 ½ weeks now.
    — John Fay, Cincinnati.com, 28 June 2018
  • This spring, the shortstop is a horrendous 3 for 31 with three singles and two RBIs.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • This spring, the shortstop is a horrendous 3 for 31 with three singles and two RBIs.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • So what happened in a horrendous half to open the 49ers’ NFC title hunt?
    — Cam Inman, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The initial look at the Cavs’ new starting group was horrendous.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Ji grew up in North Korea during a horrendous famine in the 1990s.
    — David Martin, CBS News, 31 Jan. 2018
  • First and foremost, the shootings are tragedies and are horrendous.
    — Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2017
  • There were people crying in the streets, and the panic was horrendous.
    — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Though Jordan Love played in the same conditions and, horrendous throw to end the game aside, didn’t seem to have the same issues.
    — USA TODAY, 22 Jan. 2024
  • First up is resetting The Man’s leg, which sounds horrendous and looks even worse.
    — Dalene Rovenstine, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The idea of getting carted off for ten years is horrendous.
    — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Under any circumstances that is a horrendous tragedy, but the video shows that there’s more to this.
    — al, 21 Apr. 2021
  • On non-HOV roads, peak times were horrendous, but things got better off-peak.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 6 July 2017
  • The Clone Wars were this horrendous affair and Palpatine has put an end to it.
    — Jeff Spry, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Either that or the power play for each team was horrendous.
    — Twin Cities, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Lines to tour the Vatican these days may be horrendous.
    — Molly Glentzer, Houston Chronicle, 2 Feb. 2018

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'horrendous.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: