Horrify is an English word with synonyms like dismay or alarm. Below you'll find 4 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Horrify meaning
To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.
Using Horrify
- The main meaning on this page is: To cause to feel extreme apprehension or unease; to cause to experience horror.
- Useful related words include: dismay, alarm, appal, appall.
Context around Horrify
- Average sentence length in these examples: 15.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 0 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 4 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Horrify
- In this selection, "horrify" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 15.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, business stand out and add context to how "horrify" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include designed to horrify and events should horrify us. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "horrify" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with horrify
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As Jews, these events should horrify us. (7 words)
The SLC: Forever 21 Protest is a rally designed to horrify. (11 words)
Democracies are supposed to help mend and moderate our differences, not magnify and horrify them. (15 words)
The US air services agreement is not yet finalised and any prospect of a break down in trans-Atlantic flights will horrify business groups which rely on the routes. (29 words)
Democracies are supposed to help mend and moderate our differences, not magnify and horrify them. (15 words)
The SLC: Forever 21 Protest is a rally designed to horrify. (11 words)
Example sentences (4)
Democracies are supposed to help mend and moderate our differences, not magnify and horrify them.
As Jews, these events should horrify us.
The SLC: Forever 21 Protest is a rally designed to horrify.
The US air services agreement is not yet finalised and any prospect of a break down in trans-Atlantic flights will horrify business groups which rely on the routes.