Sentence examples for horrible example from inspiring English sources

Or it is said to be of interest chiefly as a horrible example.

My grandmother said, "If you can't be perfect, be a horrible example".

We cannot image why Mr. Obama would want to follow the horrible example set by Mr. Bush in withholding such vital information from the public.

Without this stark and horrible example of how prejudice and fascism can lead to atrocities, would such things be as vilified as they are today?

The Brixton cult where the Maoist cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan raped and abused followers is just the most recent and glaringly horrible example of what happens when a dictator gets going.

In March 1950, in the wake of the affair and her subsequent marriage to Rossellini, Bergman was denounced on the floor of US Congress by Senator Edwin C Johnson as "a horrible example of womanhood and a powerful influence for evil"; she was, he said, an argument that actors should undergo background checks before being employed to entertain Americans.

But it must be said, in fairness, that the Joneses and the Smiths are the horrible examples, the confirmed pullers of social boners.

By E. B. White The New Yorker, February 6 , 1932P. 9 Supposed temperance lecturer is sending letters to his friends saying they have been recommended by Bellevue Alcoholic Ward as possible "horrible examples" for his lecture platform.

And I find, also, that almost the only thing that is any good on television today is the showing of some of these movies, and I have seen some horrible examples of what television stations, if they do it, or whoever does it, do in cutting these pictures.

Time after time after time we are presented with horrible examples of this pattern.

There are, of course, a slew of other celebrity-related weddings that are just as obnoxious and are horrible examples of what a fairy tale wedding should not be, because they never last, but one example is enough.