Sentence examples for to horrifying from inspiring English sources
verb
To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.
- The haunted house was horrifying, from one room to the next I felt more and more like I wasn't going to survive.
And crime was beginning its long, relentless climb to horrifying heights.
The results are more violent, scary and gruelling, but the switch from playful to horrifying never feels awkward.
Left alone, Ms. Chua transforms her facial expression from benevolent to horrifying and back in seconds, but her constant contortions eventually feel mannered.
He imagines socialism, nationalism and imperial liberalism as siblings, born out of an essentially decent, meliorist 19th-century impulse, and all vulnerable to horrifying moral corruption.
But interviews with Izaiah and Esther, who is Dolezal's other adopted black sibling, corroborate that Dolezal's mother and father subjected their children to horrifying treatment.
That there should be laughter again in that community – that the secessionist movement should have been crushed and contained – could be called miraculous, if that word weren't so inappropriate to horrifying injustices that still remain unaddressed.
"I take it down to horrify people".
It used to horrify me not to have it down.
"They wanted to horrify and intimidate me," he said, weeping.
"They want to horrify the town," said the man, a doctor.
The goal is to horrify your opponent, the way trusted figures, turned evil, are horrifying in movies and in nightmares.
