horrors

Example Sentences

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The film is a distinctly modern rumination on the desire to shut off and watch the world go by, without forming an opinion on the horrors.

From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026

Katie Woodcock, Henry's stepmother, told the court: "I replay the horrors of that night over again. It keeps me awake at night."

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

In a nearby tent was Zuhoor Musa Abdul Rahman, a 30-year-old housewife who recounted with unnatural calm the horrors that spurred her to flee El Fasher, a city some 300 miles east of Obeid.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

Some of her patients apologized for the seeming triviality of their traumas compared with the horrors she survived.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

But the Roman hero found horrors piled upon horrors.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton