horrors

/ ˈhɒrəz /

plural noun

1. slang.
   a fit of depression or anxiety
2. See delirium tremens
   informal.
   See delirium tremens

interjection

1. an expression of dismay, sometimes facetious

Example Sentences

Or (horrors) he could reach out to congressional leaders in both parties to pursue bipartisan legislation.

From The Daily Beast

He went on to say that even such double horrors had never kept cops from continuing on.

From The Daily Beast

In 1987, The Deer Hunter was hailed at the Moscow Film Festival as an important portrayal of the horrors of war.

From The Daily Beast

The history of horrors in the North Caucasus is so extraordinary and so long as to seem almost otherworldly.

From The Daily Beast

Then came the horrors of World War I, with the advent of tanks and airplanes and poison gas.

From The Daily Beast

I cannot reconcile the idea of a tender Heavenly Father with the known horrors of war, slavery, pestilence, and insanity.

From Project Gutenberg

She had seen little of the tragedy enacted in Meerut; she knew less of its real horrors.

From Project Gutenberg

We never see such horrors now; and I actually envied Pit Town the possession of that picture.

From Project Gutenberg

To-day men of science are trying to conquer the horrors of cancer and smallpox, and rabies and consumption.

From Project Gutenberg

At last the accumulated horrors shook even his firm spirit, and on June 4th a capitulation was agreed on.

From Project Gutenberg