72 examples of horrifies in sentences

"Beneath each leaf I discern ova of things that it might horrify you to enumerate in full.

It would horrify us to see a human being put up and sold at auction.

He never gets into a lurid passion, never horrifies, but calmly saddens you, in his discourses.

[U.S.]; faze, feeze [U.S.]; give an alarm, raise an alarm, sound an alarm; alarm, startle, scare, cry 'wolf', disquiet, dismay; fright, frighten, terrify; astound; fright from one's propriety; fright out of one's senses, fright out of one's wits, fright out of one's seven senses; awe; strike all of a heap, strike an awe into, strike terror; harrow up the soul, appall, unman, petrify, horrify; pile on the agony.

excite hatred, provoke hatred &c n.; be hateful &c adj.; stink in the nostrils; estrange, alienate, repel, set against, sow dissension, set by the ears, envenom, incense, irritate, rile; horrify &c 830; roil.

There are cinema theatres too, at prices which would delight the English public addicted to those insidious entertainments, but horrify English managers; and the Teatro Salvini at the back of the Palazzo Vecchio is occasionally transformed into a Folies Bergères (as it is called) where one after another comediennes sing each two or three songs rapidly to an audience who regard them with apathy and converse without ceasing.

We have lost the portion of those matchless Annals of Tacitus which contained the reign of Caius, but more than enough to revolt and horrify is preserved in the scattered notices of Seneca, and in the narratives of Suetonius in Latin and Dio Cassius in Greek.

You horrify me.

It was the uncleanliness of the garments themselves that would most horrify the peoples not reckoned in the foremost ranks of time.

"And I was holding the devil in me down back there, because I didn't want to horrify you with anything like brutality," he went on thoughtfully.

I will not horrify you with details, my friends.

How it thrills and horrifies!

It's the thing, and not its size, that horrifies me.

Some of the sentiments which he expresses may horrify your civilized mind, but they are not unlike those which your own small boy might utter.

And the reason is that unless it is literally and materially done, other things will be literally and materially done; and horrify the heavens.

Here and there a case strikes me as of a kind to amuse or horrify a lay reader with an interest quite different from the peculiar one which it may possess for an expert.

It horrifies even me to remember all the crimes named in that sentence....

The idea would horrify her, but she says no one should make fusses travelling, and I believe she would look just as pleased if we were shipwrecked on a desert island.

As a sensitive and chaste woman, gently born, the condition of affairs will horrify you.

"You horrify me!" He was not exaggerating.

As to the Ethiopian Pashas, if their feats, as is just possible, shock and horrify, rather than divert and amuse your invalid audience, you can, as you suggest, easily leave them behind on your way, in settlement of one of your largest hotel bills.

Mrs. BRISTOL MERCHANT horrifies me by saying "I thought it would be so nice, when you were teaching ERNIE, if HERBIE and JACK could be taught too!

I require no such inducements; they horrify me.

Heretofore she had always been sustained and kept up by an audience of some kind or quality, if only perhaps a humble companion; there had always been some one she could fascinate or horrify, and she could read her power mirrored in their eyes.

Julius Charnock looks up to him so much; but his nameeven more than St. Faith'swould horrify my father.

72 examples of  horrifies  in sentences