horrify

Example Sentences

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The mode of transportation is an especially good opportunity for parents to horrify their teenagers.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2024

Nigel Farage has made it his life’s work to disrupt, delight, dismay, horrify, and he reckons he is not done yet.

From BBC • May 28, 2024

But it is just this demand—- the requirement that citizens find ways to navigate a social world which will, necessarily, often baffle and horrify them—- that liberal societies must impose.

From Salon • Sep. 9, 2023

But just as his irreverent novels dismay some adults, the tadpoles produce comics — all acted out hilariously onstage — that horrify their adoptive father.

From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2023

Such things did not appear to horrify her.

From "1984" by George Orwell