Sentence examples for horrific- from inspiring English sources

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"It's pretty horrific to push a mother to a point of saying, 'Well, if I need to sacrifice myself for my children, maybe that's what I'll do,' " she said.

On the evening of 31 August 1854, families living in a cluster of cramped, overcrowded houses in Soho, London, were struck by a horrific calamity.

Katherine Murphy, the chief executive of the Patients Association, said the alleged ill-treatment of patients was "horrific" and reminiscent of the Mid Staffordshire scandal.

A Clegg aide told Wilson: "The thing that changed minds was George Osborne saying that he had seen the figures and it was quite horrific in real life as opposed to spin life".

Grimaldi makes a cameo appearance in Dickens's Pickwick Papers and that is really the first time when we see the clown as a horrific figure.

Pontius went on: "The responsibility – his alone – for so horrific a crime will, I imagine, weigh heavily upon his conscience for the rest of his life.

On the television in the corner, news was breaking that another body in a horrific murder case had been identified.

"This looks like it was just a horrific confluence of events".

And the more horrific the circumstances, the more needful, the more precious, the more costly is the truth".

"I cannot tell you how horrific of a feeling that is," she said, adding that the next thing she remembered was waking up hours later in the back of her car "practically naked".

Meanwhile, staff resolutely work on in a heavily protected temporary office on a floor of the French daily, Libération, coming to work between flashbacks and psychotherapy appointments, comforting the relatives of the dead and visiting the three survivors who are still in hospital being treated for horrific injuries.

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