Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

How to use horror-struck in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word horror-struck? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
So I think of Beckett as not being religious in the usual sense but at least being alive, being truly alive, and horror-struck by it.
She stared, horror-struck, into his eyes and realised that his mind had turned.
Across the globe, freedom-loving people have been horror-struck by the unprecedented attack on civil society and everyday freedoms.
Jo Body, of High Road, Benfleet, was horror-struck when she found the black hairy beasts hatching from chrysalises on her neighbour's tree.
It was a good thing Mrs. Scott's mom was so involved with her son, or else she'd have noticed the horror-struck expression on my face.
England is considering the possibility that its World Cup dream could lie in tatters seven weeks before a ball is kicked, and a frenzied southern media is horror-struck.
And despite it, the drama rings true, from the angrily delayed passenger to the horror-struck office worker and her petty and malicious co-workers.
The endless reports, what do they lead to except numbness, a kind of horror-struck paralysis?
I conducted a one-pupil straw poll: my nine-year-old daughter was horror-struck.
It was a long minute, filled with moaning and horror-struck, averted eyes, as the struggling figure plunged earthward.
Stuart Skelton was the suavely plausible Oedipus, perfectly calibrating his change from swaggering self-confidence, to horror-struck despair.
By chance, my seat in the press box in Tulane Stadium was next to that of the late, great Jimmy Cannon, who was absolutely horror-struck by the incident involving the balloon.
Lancelot immediately let her go and backed away, looking horror-struck.
One of his aides, horror-struck at the sight, dropped the reins upon his horse's neck and covered his face with his chapeau, so as not to see his commander fall.
As the swift jingling clatter rose and swelled to a booming thunder, the listeners within and without the tent ceased their noisy bargaining and chatter, and stood horror-struck.
It feels as if Hopper has upended sackfuls of it in front of our very eyes, making us rear back in horror-struck recognition that this thing louring over us is in fact the city of all our lives.
Examples from Classical Literature
Since yesterday, when I heard of it, I have been so horror-struck as not to be able to write to you.
In an instant they had disappeared, while their companions looked on horror-struck.
Your eyes, staring and horror-struck, will observe your own hands rending her.
While I was horror-struck, Channa passed by Indifferent, for he had seen such men.
At first the child was horror-struck, but when he turned to the little old woman for sympathy he found a grim smile upon her thin lips.
The two Earthmen stopped short, horror-struck at what they saw.
At sight of these strange, swift, and terrible creatures the crowd near the water's edge seemed to me to be for a moment horror-struck.
In the first moment of Pierre's outburst Anna Pavlovna, despite her social experience, was horror-struck.
At this the natives ran scampering through the groves, horror-struck at the enormity of the act.
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder

See Also

Nearby Words
Find Sentences
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2024