horrify
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The mode of transportation is an especially good opportunity for parents to horrify their teenagers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2024
The idea of giving peanut butter to babies and young children will horrify a generation of parents who were told to avoid the foodstuff due to the fear of allergies.
From BBC ● May 28, 2024
But it is just this demand—- the requirement that citizens find ways to navigate a social world which will, necessarily, often baffle and horrify them—- that liberal societies must impose.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2023
But just as his irreverent novels dismay some adults, the tadpoles produce comics — all acted out hilariously onstage — that horrify their adoptive father.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
I horrify the French every time I open my mouth.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
What horrifies her is a sense that “the law is something to be inflicted,” and therefore inherently cruel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The prospect of selling it horrifies them; handing it on is what they seek to do.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2024
“All those dissidents going into Lefortovo — the name horrifies you,” she said in an interview with ABC’s “Nightline” that aired early on Wednesday.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
The idea “that we’re supposed to save the flowers and the chocolates and the poems and the songs for the One” horrifies her.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2022
The thought of spending whatever remains of my life in this stone vault horrifies me.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
People were horrified that a car drove by and took a picture of their house.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
That we see the group start horrified and scared for their lives, and then watch as they embrace their place in the infinite agony to the point that it becomes comical, is remarkable.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
I’m sure many Dodgers fans were equally horrified with your behavior.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
"This is the first time they've heard this evidence in detail, and they're horrified," the family's attorney, Patrick Steinfeld, told the BBC after the court hearing.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
She looked up at the crowd, which sat frozen in horrified silence.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
Cleveland's Chief Constable Victoria Fuller said what we'd heard was "horrifying".
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
Workers who managed to get out described horrifying scenes when the disaster struck.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
He covers topics in the zeitgeist related to wellness, cultural etiquette, masculinity and lifestyle/style trends—basically all the weird, funny, inspired and horrifying things being thrown at us in this moment of "maxxing."
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
And he goes on to, as the question suggests, accept and construct horrifying grifts, right?
From Slate ● Aug. 17, 2026
A dilapidated vessel, bigger and more horrifying than any bone ship, split the surface, growing larger and larger.
From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia
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