Wondering how to use Horribly in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as dreadfully or awfully.
Horribly in a sentence
Horribly meaning
- In a horrible way; very badly.
- To an extreme degree or extent.
- With a very bad effect.
Synonyms of Horribly
Using Horribly
- The main meaning on this page is: In a horrible way; very badly. | To an extreme degree or extent. | With a very bad effect.
- Useful related words include: dreadfully, awfully.
- In the example corpus, horribly often appears in combinations such as: horribly wrong, went horribly, go horribly.
Context around Horribly
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 7 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Horribly
- In this selection, "horribly" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, goes, particularly, backfired, wrong, disappointing and wounded stand out and add context to how "horribly" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a particularly horribly mutated infected and akila goes horribly and hilariously. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "horribly" sits close to words such as acne, anonymously and asians, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with horribly
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
How horribly mortifying,” she added. (5 words)
How horribly true his words ring today. (7 words)
I didn’t break my leg, but it was horribly twisted. (11 words)
Constrained to Thursdays before much more popular TV shows like and with its flagship series playing on the weekends, Once Upon A Time In Wonderland struggled horribly, and as the spinoff failed to grow an audience, it was canceled after its first season. (43 words)
Here’s a great chart from FactSet, posted to Twitter this week, showing the “average” upside surprise or beat rate for the S&P 500 for the last 5 years, which is horribly distorted by the Covid period. (38 words)
A lot of things have to go horribly wrong for a group of wealthy suburban kids to end up in some of the places they find themselves in throughout the film - and they do. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
It also starts with a heist that goes horribly wrong — or horribly right, according to the villains.
As someone who has to stream CBC NN while working…this coverage has been horribly horribly disappointing.
He said: "Nobody has guns in Paris, nobody, and we all remember the more than 130 people, plus tremendous numbers of people that were horribly, horribly wounded.
A lot of things have to go horribly wrong for a group of wealthy suburban kids to end up in some of the places they find themselves in throughout the film - and they do.
And who truly cannot be replicated by AI because what’s the AI basing the stories off of the ones from what westerns from the fifties, and they’re horribly biased points of view.
A particularly horribly mutated infected notices her and extends its tendrils from its mouth into hers.
A Starfield player is left befuddled after their spaceship launch on Akila goes horribly and hilariously wrong due to a bizarre bug.
But not fielding a full-strength side was still a gamble, and it has backfired horribly.
Complete control would mean no one was ever horribly injured in an auto accident caused by someone else.
Constrained to Thursdays before much more popular TV shows like and with its flagship series playing on the weekends, Once Upon A Time In Wonderland struggled horribly, and as the spinoff failed to grow an audience, it was canceled after its first season.
Down the other end, Georgie Kelly sliced horribly over when well placed as we entered six minutes of stoppage time.
Here’s a great chart from FactSet, posted to Twitter this week, showing the “average” upside surprise or beat rate for the S&P 500 for the last 5 years, which is horribly distorted by the Covid period.
However, the Big State Daddy is gone and it seems as though the people of Western Australia are at least starting to look around and acknowledge that something has gone horribly wrong.
How horribly mortifying,” she added.
How horribly true his words ring today.
I didn’t break my leg, but it was horribly twisted.
If you can’t get up without getting out of breath or tie your shoes without being horribly contorted, it is time to do something.
If your code is "poetic" but nobody understands what it is intended to do, it is a sign that you are doing something horribly wrong.
I hate to sound horribly cliche but he is literally tall, dark and handsome.
In an article published in the media on May 16, 2023 Kenrick Hunte argued that the stated production life of 20 years for the project is “highly misleading and horribly wrong”.
Common combinations with horribly
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- horribly wrong 48×
- went horribly 16×
- go horribly 11×
- goes horribly 10×
- is horribly 9×
- gone horribly 9×
- was horribly 8×
- so horribly 7×
- horribly and 6×
- been horribly 5×