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How to use the word horrific in a Sentence? Page #9

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Trying to think about it more positively, I hope the research continues to develop a Zika vaccine in the event we have another early signal of a Zika virus outbreak anywhere in the world, a vaccine could be deployed very, very quickly, and that would blunt the horrific impact of the Zika virus.

William Schaffner

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The circumstances of this case are absolutely shocking, representing another horrific example of the Iranian authorities’ warped priorities, no one, regardless of age, should be subjected to flogging; that a child was prosecuted for consuming alcohol and sentenced to 80 lashes beggars belief.

Philip Luther

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

How do you find the words to describe the most horrific event in your life, your personal valley of the shadow of death ? because that is exactly the feeling that clamps your heart when you are at a place where the medication needed to rescue your child is out of reach.

Danielle Foltz

Found on CNN
5 years ago

This is a horrific crime, there’s no other way to describe it.

Judge Robert J. Devlin Jr.

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

What is happening to families at the border is horrific, every human being with a sense of compassion and decency should be outraged.

Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I am so sorry that a trusted, renowned physician turned out to be an evil predator, and I am sorry that we did not discover his crimes and remove him from the community sooner, now, my hope is that we learn from these horrific events.

Lou Anna Simon

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Within 14 hours of complying we were rushing our son to the hospital, and it was one of the most horrific seizures I’ve ever seen.

Suzeanna Brill

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

I am outraged by this horrific act.

Harlem Desir

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

As our nation confronts yet another horrific school shooting, it is imperative that we not become inured to these tragedies. We must act as a society to make our schools safe and ensure that students and teachers do not live in fear that they could be next, the American Psychological Association calls for evidence-based solutions to stop the gun violence that has become a public health crisis and is tearing our country apart.

Jessica Henderson Daniel

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Unfortunately I have to begin by expressing our sadness and heartbreak over the deadly shooting in Texas, we send prayers and support for everyone affected in the horrific attack. Trump also tweeted again saying he grieved for the terrible loss of life, and send our support and love to everyone affected by this horrible attack in Texas. To the students, families, teachers and personnel at Santa Fe High School - we are with you in this tragic hour, and we will be with you forever, he concluded. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz also tweeted regarding the shooting. Eight to 10 people were killed Friday in a school shooting in Santa Fe, Texas. (AP).

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The situation is certainly horrific, and I think that symbolically this move represents for many Palestinians the end of their hopes for a two-state solution.

Jeff Merkley

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Something that on paper sounds horrific was not in reality at all for someone who was in it and experienced and was living through it, everyone who handled it was seamless and graceful.

Emilia Clarke

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I can only describe it as a horrific situation, we have no information to raise concern about wider public safety issues at this point in time.

Police Chris Dawson

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

I've seen horrific situations.

Cindy Hounsell

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

What the doctor actually said was' you can pop to England', which was horrific.

Vicky Wall

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The sooner this case is decided, the sooner the Commonwealth can stop this horrific and barbaric practice of ripping unborn babies limb by limb.

Kentucky General Counsel Steve Pitt

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The government appears to be waiting for instructions from President Donald Trump on how to proceed, britain should press for an independent U.N.-led investigation of last weekend's horrific chemical weapons attack so that those responsible can be held to account.

Jeremy Corbyn

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

He came to visit and told me, ‘Chuck, you have to pray and you have to ask for the acceptance of God’s will in your life’, … I fell asleep in the middle of a horrific withdrawal… But there is no sleep really because your body is just aching, it’s electric… [But] when I woke up, the obsession was gone. And I knew God had helped me. Chuck Negron performing today. (Courtesy of Chuck Negron) I believe God came and did for me what I couldn’t do for myself and relieved me from the bondage of addiction… I knew God had helped me. From that time on my faith grew stronger and stronger. It changed my life.

Chuck Negron

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

These people are taking horrific situations and making them even more graphic than they were without any concern for the living victims of these crimes and I think that’s horrible and crass.

Sharon Tate

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

He has said things that are horrific. And with me, he’s not getting away with it, he got away with it for a long time, between him and his family. He’s not getting away with it. It’s a whole new ball game.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

What happened [in Florida] is not only so horrific a tragedy, but it also has happened far too many times in this country.

Susan Collins

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

No one was prepared for the horrific revelation that our precioushaum?na( students) were secretly abused and physically and emotionally traumatized from 1962-1984 by Dr. Robert Browne, Chief of Psychiatry at St. Francis Hospital. And, after abuses were reported, not nearly enough was done. … Kamehameha Schools is deeply and truly sorry.

Jack Wong

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This isn’t something we normally see on the street — just carelessness for life, it’s horrific.

Kristina Rinaldi

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

For someone to do this to two children is horrific, i ca n’t even explain how people feel up here. We’ve had homicides here in the past, as all communities do, but children — it really, really has affected this community.

Mark McGrath

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

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