hideous

in a sentence

Thomas couldn't think of any nightmare that could equal this hideous thing coming toward him.  (source) James Dashner, The Maze Runner, 2009

The Maycomb jail was the most venerable and hideous of the county's buildings.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

She then revealed my hideous crime.  (source) Dave Pelzer, A Child Called It, 1995

Reports trickled in from the hideous battle raging outside.  (source) Lauren Tarshis, I Survived The American Revolution, 2017

I was hideously frightened of the empty yard.†  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005

For his own part, Private Martin could think only of the horrors of war "in all their hideousness."†  (source) David McCullough, 1776, 2005

...hundreds of hideous arms grasped at him from every side.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, 1955

It was hideously noisy, for one thing, and the machinists didn't really like sharing the cramped quarters with anyone else.†  (source) Kenneth Oppel, Airborn, 2004

Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia?†  (source) W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903

Every minute, as the train sped on, the colors of things became dingier; the fields were grown parched and yellow, the landscape hideous and bare.  (source) Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, 1906

With an ugly chill against his backbone, Matt stared at the hideously painted face.†  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Sign of the Beaver, 1983

You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty.†  (source) Anton Chekhov, The Bet, 1889

To tell me that I had already a wife is empty mockery: you know now that I had but a hideous demon.  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847