HORROR in a Sentence

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1. They exclaimed in horror at the price.
2. A cry of horror burst from all the animals.
3. And the horror and the terror of being alone.
4. Staff watched in horror as he set himself alight.
5. At the horror of these sights and sounds, the maid fainted.

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 Meanings and Examples of HORROR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
horror
 n.  terror; fear; intense dislike
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He appears to know every detail of every horror perpetrated in the century.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  On his rigid face there stood an expression of horror, and as it seemed to me, of hatred, such as I have never seen upon human features.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
3  There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
4  I felt a creeping of the flesh, and a presentiment of coming horror, even before Sherlock Holmes answered.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
5  Fuller knowledge of the organization which produced such terrible results served to increase rather than to lessen the horror which it inspired in the minds of men.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
6  A horror which was almost superstitious came upon him at the sight of them.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
7  He gazed at me with bleared, drunken eyes for a moment, and then I saw a horror spring up in them, and convulse his whole features, which showed me that he knew me.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
8  To that horror we all must come--cows, pigs, hens, sheep, everyone.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
9  A cry of horror burst from all the animals.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
10  This afternoon he wasn't Giles Oliver come to see the villagers act their annual pageant; manacled to a rock he was, and forced passively to behold indescribable horror.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 4
11  One fact mitigated the horror; his forefinger, raised in the customary manner, was stained with tobacco juice.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
12  And the horror and the terror of being alone.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
13  At the horror of these sights and sounds, the maid fainted.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
14  They were both pale; and there was an answering horror in their eyes.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER INCIDENT AT THE WINDOW
15  Next, in the course of their review of the chamber, the searchers came to the cheval glass, into whose depths they looked with an involuntary horror.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  People watched in horror as the small plane crashed to the ground.
17  The possibility of meeting him again filled me with horror.
18  They exclaimed in horror at the price.
19  Staff watched in horror as he set himself alight.
20  I stare in horror at its bloody mouth, that vertical stitch of red wool now dribbling crimson.
21  He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom; for he had not the shadow of a doubt that this entire hubbub was about him.
22  He covered his head with the bedclothes and waited in a horror of suspense for his doom.
23  Dressed in a sport jacket and jeans, Louis Vartan stood with his arms crossed and an expression of weary horror on his face.
24  The majority of horror movies are set in deserted areas with limited proximity to towns and major cities.
25  Though Rudy claimed his wife was off visiting friends, his shriek of horror when she walked into the room was tantamount to a confession that he believed she was dead.
26  The scene the horror film where the cannibal dismembered the missionary left me with my hair standing on end.
27  But then, prepared as my mind was for horror, shaken as my nerves were by agitation, I thought the swift darting beam was a vision from another world.
28  Rochester shudder: a singularly marked expression of disgust, horror, hatred, warped his countenance almost to distortion.
29  What was remarkable was that the Allies having spent nearly six years fighting to destroy this pestilential horror in the heart of Europe.
30  Seabra's mother said her son - whom she described as shy and religious - wasn't capable of such horror.