How to Use horrid in a Sentence

horrid

adjective
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  • He's a horrid little man.
  • People there are living in horrid conditions.
  • Go Ahead, Wine Raise a glass to celebrate the end of a horrid winter.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 21 May 2018
  • Portland is far too good to have this poor of a record, as a horrid start to the season put them way back in the standings.
    — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 20 Jan. 2020
  • This boiling fountain of death is one of the most dismal, low, and horrid places, on which the light of the sun ever shone.
    — Richard Campanella, The Atlantic, 6 Feb. 2018
  • And then, like, 20 percent of them die in the nets because the conditions are so horrid.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2023
  • There is plenty of nudity, of course — and not just live and in the flesh, so to speak, but in the form of a photo on the wall: a horrid crotch shot.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Aug. 2023
  • The Gauchos’ downfall was their three-point shooting, a horrid 2 of 15 from behind the arc.
    — oregonlive, 20 Nov. 2019
  • Whitehead tried to make sense of the horrid disclosures.
    — Joan Gaylord, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 July 2019
  • The calls are getting louder in the wake of the team's horrid performance Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars.
    — Scott Horner, Indianapolis Star, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Coming off of a horrid January, the Buckeyes have won five of their last six games to re-enter the top 25.
    — Stephen Means, cleveland, 17 Feb. 2020
  • That's not enough of an offensive jolt to cope with Thomas' horrid defense.
    — Chris Fedor, cleveland.com, 25 Jan. 2018
  • For a team with that horrid of a defense to make the Finals would be unprecedented.
    — Tim Bontemps, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2018
  • My wife hanging on to the console, the boat bucking in a horrid blow, lightning crackling.
    — The Editors, Field & Stream, 23 Nov. 2023
  • His 11 interceptions sound horrid, but as the film shows, a handful of those are not his fault.
    — Ellis L. Williams, cleveland, 16 Oct. 2019
  • The fourth sign is expected to go up soon, better designed to deal with the horrid attacks.
    — Breanna Edwards, Essence, 26 July 2019
  • One of the few members of this squad old enough to remember that horrid time is Luka Modric.
    — SI.com, 12 July 2018
  • One of the issues throughout the team’s terrible stretch: a horrid defense.
    — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 22 June 2018
  • Jones seems to finally be on track following a horrid start to the season.
    — Esten McLaren, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 3 Dec. 2019
  • The first order of business for the Razorbacks is trying to start hot to reverse the horrid trend from last season.
    — Tom Murphy, Arkansas Online, 1 Sep. 2023
  • There were colors, jungle greens and browns, and that horrid noise — that blurring Matrix phone.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Horrid estimated the age range on Monday nights is about 21 to 45.
    — Lizzy Acker, OregonLive.com, 23 May 2017
  • Her succotash was horrid, but her pies were a thing of beauty, the best of all being a lemon where the meringue rose in soft billowy clouds halfway to heaven.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2018
  • But this year’s horrid start pales in comparison to the previous three years.
    — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2019
  • Both were key cogs in a Miami pitching staff trying to weather a horrid start.
    — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 May 2018
  • Rather than sulk in his dressing room about the horrid weather conditions, the swagger-happy MC swam through his set a la Michael Phelps.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The Colorado Rapids’ backline had a horrid start to the season with only one game of solid performance.
    — Jake Shapiro, The Denver Post, 3 July 2019
  • With a solid performance here and more of them going forward, Sato can bury the memory of that horrid back stretch in 2013.
    — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 23 June 2017
  • Flacco took advantage of clean pockets to bounce back a little after a horrid start to the season.
    — Steven Ruiz, USA TODAY, 11 Oct. 2017
  • The horrid medicine was not my nemesis but my ammunition.
    — Janine Di Giovanni, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019

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