Example Sentences

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She assumed her husband, Peter, died in the Great War until he turned up unannounced and horrifically disfigured — she turned him away.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2024

Luce sees Schwarzman as an American Croesus, horrifically influential in politics as in finance, like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and other billionaires.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2024

Instead of putting things right on Sunday, they doubled-down, batted horrifically and gave ammunition to those who say their Bazballing approach is occasionally ill-suited to the discipline required for Test cricket.

From BBC • Sep. 8, 2024

Dahlia Lithwick: We had some good news this week, a little bright moment in the form of a Title VII case that could have gone horrifically awry but didn’t.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2024

I thought about tattoos, about the connection, about the tattoo on Ema’s back, the tattoo on Antoine’s face—and most horrifically, the Auschwitz concentration camp tattoo forced upon a young girl named Elizabeth Sobek.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben