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How to use the word Horror in a Sentence?

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Every major horror of history was committed in the name of an altruistic motive.

Ayn Rand

added by Normando
5 months ago

Have you ever seen somebody die? It’s not like in the movies, not to me. You don’t close their peaceful eyes and pray for their soul. Rather their eyes are full of horror. People say taken in the flower of their youth, how sad yet these people get to escape a lifetime of hell and still people mourn. I laugh in honor of the dead. may they rot in peace.

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
8 months ago

They were kidnapped from their home. They were transported hundreds of miles from there not really sure where they went. And they came to this place of horror, some to die, many to starve and be tortured. Women to be raped before they were then forcibly taken on a journey thousands of miles from their home to be sold by so-called merchants and taken to the Americas to the Caribbean to be an enslaved people.

Kamala Harris

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You can’t even imagine the horror that the victim’s family is going through, as well as the perpetrator’s family.

Tim Alexander

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are flirting with climate disaster. Every week brings a new climate horror story.

The UN Secretary General

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our study shows how effective archaeology, and particularly new scientific techniques such as ancient DNA, can be in providing new perspectives on historical events, ralph de Diceto's account of the 1190 AD attacks is evocative, but a deep well containing the bodies of Ashkenazi Jewish men, women, and especially children forces us to confront the real horror of what happened.

Tom Booth

Found on CNN
1 year ago

PEN America is reeling from shock and horror at the word of a brutal, premeditated attack on our former President and stalwart ally, Sir Salman Rushdie, who was reportedly stabbed multiple times while on stage speaking at the Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York, we can think of no comparable incident of a public attack on a literary writer on American soil.

Suzanne Nossel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They're canceling days off and putting people on 12-hour shifts to make up for this personnel shortfall, you have people that are working through horror stories like 18 straight days without a day off. You can’t function that way.

Detectives Eugene Roy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.

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added by unochickie
1 year ago

There is no sense that these countries are preparing to move on, to look the other way, and in fact, every time we gather, there is renewed horror, there is renewed condemnation, there is renewed determination to continue to see to it that our Ukrainian partners have what they need.

Ned Price

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think the world has continued to be shocked by the level of atrocity, the level of violence, the level of brutality, that Russia's forces have engaged in against the Ukrainian people. I think that will necessarily maintain this level of consensus within the international community, there is no sense that these countries are preparing to move on, to look the other way, and in fact, every time we gather, there is renewed horror, there is renewed condemnation, there is renewed determination to continue to see to it that our Ukrainian partners have what they need.

Ned Price

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One Survivor Remembers family has always believed that Mom and Dad's greatest achievement is that they were able to emerge from the Holocaust and create for themselves and their children a completely normal life in the United States. That they and others who experienced such horror were able to do so, is to One Survivor Remembers nothing short of remarkable.

Gerda Weissmann Klein

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The horror of child pornography is exponentially worse than it was a decade ago, and judges handing out lenient sentences for these criminals is a big reason why, while the White House continues to dismiss concerns about leniency toward child porn offenders as a ‘desperate conspiracy theory,’ the numbers speak for themselves. Congress must act before this problem becomes even worse.

Josh Hawley

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Which is worse? The horror of waking up alone or the horror of waking up next to someone else?

Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

Putin is inflicting appalling, appalling devastation and horror onUkraine, bombing apartment buildings, maternity wards, hospitals. I mean, it's god-awful, the world is united in our support for Ukraine and our determination to make Putin pay a very heavy price.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Russian President Vladimir Putin is inflicting appalling, appalling devastation and horror on Ukraine -- bombing apartment buildings, maternity wards, hospitals, i mean, it's godawful.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Putin is inflicting appalling, appalling devastation and horror on Ukraine, bombing apartment buildings, maternity wards, hospitals. I mean, it's God awful, the world is united in our support for Ukraine and our determination to make Putin pay a very heavy price.

Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I have had my experiences with harassment, men flashing me or following me, but I run in honor of Ahmaud and his family as I can not even imagine the horror they went through losing Ahmaud doing a sport that everyone should have the right to do safely.

Sarah Seither

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I always had a sort of sincere approach to the comedy, i took it seriously even though, it was a horror movie and a comedy, I felt you had to sort of deal with it in a kind of realistic and honest way.

Ivan Reitman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Any contemporary warfare would be horrifying, but there are gradations to the horror.

Nigel Gould-Davies

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The liberals who sit at Martha’s Vineyard sipping cocktails on their back porch think they're doing nice things for these migrants, they’re not, they're causing them all kinds of misery and horror, and why would you put people through something like that?

Ohio Senate

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Taking Down Backpage, many survivors have come forward over the years, sharing their own horror stories to insist on dignity and justice for all.

Fox News

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I mean, nothing repairs the horror and damage of the crime, nothing.

David Gilbert

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The kids were yelling. ... We begged for them not to do it, it was like a horror movie.

Daniel Paz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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