Sentence examples for a horrid thing from inspiring English sources

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It's a horrid thing.

Girlhood is a horrid thing, a time awash with sebum, diaries read out loud and all your friends a desirable nine out of 10 to your un-gorgeous six.

–FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

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That is the most horrid thing about living".

Provoked by the moon, the roused spirit of the bush "The "horrid thing in the bush", from D.H. Lawrence's "Kangaroo" in 1923, has become familiar through Australian films, such as "Ned Kelly", "Walkabout" and "Picnic at Hanging Rock".

But the art that palliates Humbert's misery has not notably relieved the distress of reviewers, most of whom have felt obliged to ask themselves, "Why has the author done this horrid thing?" Some have concluded, rather desperately, that he hasn't done it at all.

The horrid thing is that the consequence might not be the same for Rand as it was for dad.

The first two chapters of Eaarth line up the evidence in a devastating way to show that climate change is not (despite the political rhetoric of the past decade) some horrid thing to be visited upon our grandchildren.

- Been sent an attachment of horrid things someone had said to them during their school years and asked to write it violently all over their naked body with a permanent marker while spitting on them.

She knows "which way is up on a sheep" because she grew up in the countryside in Northern Ireland with her three sisters - apparently in a magic bubble that horrid things like sectarian violence couldn't penetrate.

When Lady Susan deadpans a line like "Facts are horrid things," you can't help but laugh.

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