'horrendous scenes' is a valid phrase that can be used in written English.
Example: As the tornado tore through town, the survivors were faced with horrendous scenes of destruction.
The horrendous scenes revealed cattle being whipped, stabbed and gouged.
"Children told us they have witnessed horrendous scenes.
In Kurosawa's film, a blind youth gropes along at the brim of a precipice after horrendous scenes of war.
British United Nations troops who arrived afterward said they found horrendous scenes, with people burned to death in their own homes, set on fire by the soldiers.
It will also feed the trafficking networks transporting scores of desperate African and Syrian migrants from Libya to Italy's shores, with more horrendous scenes of bodies washed up after deadly sea crossings.
Ambulance crews said 35 casualties needed hospital treatment in what were described as "horrendous scenes".
Sky News Stuart Ramsay reported live: "They are getting crushed, it's a pretty horrendous scene actually now.
A sobering wave of quiet and concern came over the soldiers in the platoon as they surveyed this horrendous scene.
"We had just witnessed a horrendous scene, and here everyone was just out on the street," Cliff said.
"IT was a horrendous scene, so many brave boys," Thomas Cartwright said haltingly as he stood on the porch of the Carter House.
She rushes back, witnesses the horrendous scene (I will never forget that grim shaking drill) and gets him an emergency stay.
