horrors

Example Sentences

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Olga Freidenberg’s journals recorded the indignities and horrors of daily life in the Soviet Union.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

But because it involved cauterizing lesions, I was put under general anesthesia to spare me the horrors of experiencing it.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

The true horrors of what happened that day can now be reported following the sentencing of staff worker Kimberley Cookson, 23, business owner Deborah Latewood, 55, and the nursery at Wolverhampton Crown Court on Friday.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

In its own way, that’s even more chilling and resonant than the horrors of “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

He would tell me of the horrors of the deadness, of the loneliness of silent roads and fields.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien