Example Sentences

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When everyone is amazingly amazing at being amazing, however, the experience is so rote that you’ll be rooting for something to go hideously wrong.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025

"I think I managed to get eight flights through before I had to get my own flight... I was clapped out of the airport, which was lovely but hideously embarrassing," she said.

From BBC • Nov. 3, 2025

He’s just a hideously rich guy who wants to be president; this has never happened before, and would surely set a new precedent.

From Slate • Nov. 9, 2023

Days afterward he can tolerate sunlight and eat food, but his other vampire powers are hideously and hilariously irregular.

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2023

His face looked enormous because of its nearness, and hideously ugly because it was seen from below.

From "1984" by George Orwell