How to Use horror story in a Sentence

horror story

noun
Definition of horror storynext
  • Her childhood was a horror story.
  • We've all heard horror stories about airlines losing people's luggage.
  • One of the stories is a horror story about a hole in the ground.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Some are horror stories, some have a tinge of film noir.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2024
  • Some of my new friends had horror stories about their schools.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The Witch is a bonafide horror story set in New England during the 1630s.
    — Cameron Jenkins, Good Housekeeping, 18 July 2022
  • But the latest in Airbnb horror stories comes from one group's rental in the Bay Area, where things got creepy fast.
    — Kelsey Mulvey, House Beautiful, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Three horror stories based on the writings of Nathaniel Hawthorne.
    — Houston Chronicle, 19 Sep. 2019
  • The most thrilling horror stories are those whose truth is inescapable.
    — Alex Davies, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2019
  • But if that sounds like a horror story, or at least a tragedy, this new book is anything but.
    — Clea Simon, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2019
  • The host is not the horror story of an absentee, out-of-state investor who doesn’t have any ties to a town.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2021
  • The Mary Kay Letourneau horror story is a joke to these jokers.
    — Armond White, National Review, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Please discuss this with a lawyer who can give you more detail about the horror story that may lie ahead.
    — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 5 June 2024
  • Revenant, like so many horror stories, begins on a rainy night.
    — Geoffrey Bunting, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
  • Failure to ask the above is when horror stories surface, says Marin.
    — Maya Allen, Marie Claire, 31 July 2019
  • Her mind games put a new spin on preteen horror stories.
    — Jill Pellettieri, Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2023
  • So many people have the horror stories of their first beer, and my beer was delicious.
    — Tirion Morris, azcentral, 18 Oct. 2019
  • And that is only part of the horror story for investors and companies this year.
    — Isabella Simonetti, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2022
  • So yes, there are horror stories that come with our culture, as with all cultures.
    — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 14 Jan. 2020
  • And that’s only part of the horror story for investors and companies this year.
    — New York Times, 16 July 2022
  • Fans quickly chimed in with some of their dating horror stories.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Glamour, 21 Jan. 2019
  • The film does not have a title or official logline yet, but it will be based on a true horror story.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Fact checked by Sarah Scott A Texas mom of two has shared her horror story after a drawer fell and injured her young son.
    — Hannah Nwoko, Parents, 11 June 2024
  • Ryan Murphy will tell a different kind of horror story on FX later in the year.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Golden says Chacey told him horror stories about Robert.
    — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2020
  • But what awaits Noa there is a bigger horror story than her string of terrible dates.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2022
  • As my editor says, any story could be a horror story or a fairy tale.
    — Brady Gerber, Vulture, 8 June 2021
  • State fair taste test judges sharing their horror stories.
    — Kristina Goetz, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2019
  • Despite the horror stories and warnings, the examples of fraudsters across the centuries, people are still just as gullible as Poisson.
    — thehustle.co, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The office horror story Severance wrapped up its first season in August 2022, and little news had been shared since then, aside from some casting information.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 10 June 2024

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