Sentence examples for horrid encounter from inspiring English sources

Imagine a remake of Jaws without the shark or Free Willy without the whale: devotees of the original know about the hero's horrid encounter with a live octopus.

Although this encounter was somewhat less horrid than the previous three -in one game the Pacers hit only 19 shots, the fewest of any team in 30 years; in another the Knicks scored only 80 points, but still won - it had its moments.

Charlie's chocolate-factory encounters with Oompa-Loompas, Augustus Gloop and snozzberries; the horrid aunts Spiker and Sponge in "James and the Giant Peach"; the villains of "Fantastic Mr. Fox," "Boggis and Bunce and Bean / One fat, one short, one lean.

Horrid horrid call.

Horrid flat.

How horrid!

Horrid boys become horrid men.

Isn't it horrid?

It was horrid.

Horrid, crowded place.

Horrid, horrid, and let me say again, horrid.