horror
Example Sentences
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Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic, which won the Academy Award for visual effects and spawned an enduring franchise, turns the commercial towing vessel Nostromo — essentially a tug-hauling cargo ship — into something claustrophobic and unforgiving.
From Los Angeles Times
Adventure and anguish, horror and heaven were just around the corner, and we did not know.
From Literature
No words could speak our horror, no tears could cry our sorrow.
From Literature
But he didn’t have the expressive variety to make the horror of Hercules’ death scene match lines like “Along my feverish veins, like liquid fire, the subtle poison hastes.”
The story is about a family that makes low-budget horror movies together, touching on the growing tensions their lack of success creates among them and the lengths they will go to for their latest project.
From Los Angeles Times
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