Sentence examples for horrible odds from inspiring English sources
He was in no way trained to be a leader, and so his impatience with his companions is really human, not an indication of failure, and his ingenuity in the face of horrible odds is all the more astounding.
Its two main characters are not his usual blue-collar workers, struggling against horrible odds to hold on to their glimpse of the American Dream, but a wealthy socialite and a famous artist who take their privileges for granted and who lead profligate, self-dramatizing lives.
Being a judge gave me much more anxiety than being on the shortlist myself, even with the horrible bookies' odds and the risk of being depicted as a cartoon racehorse, because as a judge you are responsible for disappointing a lot of people.
If, however, you refer to something they're doing as Orwellian – and by extension a bit like all that horrible stuff in Nineteen Eighty-Four – odds are you aren't aiming for their Christmas card list.
"The odds are horrible, and buying at the grocery store is too much of a chore.
But a few genes are perfect storms of bad news: high odds of developing a horrible condition that you can do nothing about.
It's worth noting that the video doesn't show the aftermath of the test, but odds are good it went well, as it didn't include any cries of horrible, horrible pain.
Anybody who has ever found themselves at odds with the criminal justice system will say that there is a horrible momentum about its decisions.
Mathew Baynton from CBBC's Horrible Histories plays Sam Pinkett, an employee of Berkshire County Council who gets mixed up in a thriller plot-line entirely at odds with his mundane existence to date.
Horrible, horrible, horrible.
