horror - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- Nazism: They joined many others who had already fled from the horrors of Nazism and Fascism that had engulfed most of Europe.
- warfare: In August 1914, no-one could have contemplated the horrors of trench warfare - hence why the cavalry regiments reigned supreme.
Converse of object
- perpetrate: The Eastern Europeans have not forgotten the horrors perpetrated upon them by the Turks.
- inflict: Can't Lenin grasp the timeless lessons of European history or remember all the horrors inflicted by counterrevolution?
Adjective modifier
- unspeakable: The local people lived in great fear and suffering, bearing witness to unspeakable horror of senseless killings and torture.
- unimaginable: In response to unimaginable horror, Luc Tuymans offers the sublime.
- Gothic: Predictably, the appetite for Gothic horrors seems to grow as the taste for more wholesome art declines.
- abject: This series which until now has been universally banned for it's subversiveness and abject horror is now free for all to behold.
- supernatural: In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors.
Modifies a noun
- movie: I really enjoy doing horror movies - I really enjoy doing any movies.
- flick: It's going to be a gory horror flick aimed at American teenagers.
- genre: Resident Evil The Game(s ) The world of computer gaming ventured in to the horror genre with these sets of games.
- story: Everyone has their store of horror stories about the " divorce " of X which took " years " .
- film: A famous horror film director wants to make a new movie on demons.
- fan: Horror fans will get off on all the grim discoveries that take place.
Noun used with modifier
- sci-fi: The story is pretty much your usual sci-fi horror fare, with little in the way of surprises.
- shock: Shock horror stories of the day: Madonna's new haircut was in fact a wig.
- zombie: And Billy Zane will star in the zombie horror thriller THE MAD, which starts filming this month somewhere in Canada.
- survival: This is survival horror in it's purest form.
- cult: A self-confessed cult horror enthusiast, Vanian would undoubtedly have secured a copy of DEATH BED.
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