Sentence examples for horrid stories from inspiring English sources

I am a 50-year-old Air Force retiree and felt completely and totally humiliated, and yet my experience pales in comparison to some of the horrid stories heard of what is happening to females.

He recalls the horrid story of each one of the family members.

Back in London, Haunted History Ghost Walks explore the city's "most horrid history and petrifying ghost stories".

The opera is drawn from an 1864 short story by Nikolai Leskov, a horrid tale of Katerina Ismailova, the frustrated, childless, murderous wife of a successful provincial merchant in mid-19th-century Russia.

I always show Josh my Horrid Henry stories, and find him an acute, if blunt critic.

His lament is recorded as: Mis air airin baidh 'us burrail            I was drowning and howling Measg nan glumag eagalaich             Amongst the horrid pools Another story has St Moluag and St Mulhac conducting a boat race across the Lynn of Lorn with the first to land on Lismore having the right to found a monastery there.

Francesca Simon, author of the stories about Horrid Henry and his peachy brother, Perfect Peter, has hit the jackpot and then some with her stories about, yes, deep-seated fraternal grudge-bearing rooted in that age-old idea that, where there are two brothers, one is destined to be good and the other bad.

You don't want to be the "fragile girl" or the one who bores her beau to death with relentless stories of that horrid ex.

They're going to look for some horrid bush and some forsaken story about HIV".

The unravelling of a middle class mainstay (the holiday in France) is perhaps one of the reasons it has resonated with audiences, and why the writing team behind the show, Harry and Jack Williams, used the phrase "horrid familiarity" to describe the story.

To say something is Dahlesque is often shorthand for "includes wacky humour in a story where adults are horrid and cruelty and nastiness abound".