(2) A student who lost her leg in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash says she has been given a new lease of life by a hi-tech prosthetic leg and that she is stronger for her harrowing experience.
(3) Arredondo's story appears equally dramatic and harrowing.
(4) There are some deeply harrowing cases, a lot of people will be disclosing sexual violence and for many of them they won’t have told anyone else before.
(5) Police Scotland have confirmed that they will contact MP Michelle Thomson after she moved colleagues to tears in the Commons on Thursday when she revealed harrowing details of her rape at the age of 14 and its subsequent impact on her life.
(6) Copper levels were elevated to the normal range in both dietary groups of the Gujerati and were similar to the concentrations found in the Harrow groups.
(7) The inquest heard at times harrowing detail about how gangs of local teenagers and children, some as young as 10, had the family "under siege".
(8) Dietary intake of 813 pregnant Harrow Asians of mainly Gujarati descent was compared with the intake of 54 pregnant Europeans living in the same area.
(9) We would not wish any other families to go through this harrowing experience and appeal to everyone to keep calm and show their respect in a peaceful manner."
(10) An already grim night for United might have been even more harrowing if the referee, Martin Atkinson, had taken action against Marouane Fellaini for embedding his studs in the back of James McCarthy's leg.
(11) For Liverpool it has been a harrowing, valedictory year, the kind that deserves a send-off, and they had one here even in defeat.
(12) The trailer comprises a harrowing clip from the film in which the sniper must choose whether to gun down an Iraqi woman and child who appear to be mounting a suicide attack, interspersed with flashbacks to the soldier’s life in America with his own wife and children.
(13) Bosnia-Herzegovina Aligned to Eurovision's Balkan Bloc Harrowingly for Greece, there is a rival Balkan Bloc entry and hurrah, the song is in the local language.
(14) He said: “Among the horror of the refugee crisis, one of the most harrowing images has been the thousands of orphaned children fleeing conflict.” “Britain has always been a compassionate and welcoming country, and I am delighted that the government has finally, after months of pressure, committed to vital humanitarian aid.
(15) A high prevalence of iron deficiency was found in apparently healthy Asian immigrant children in Harrow.
(16) Perhaps the most harrowing part for Manchester City amid all the regrets and raw disappointment is the way large parts of this game seemed to pass them by.
(17) Some case notes make harrowing reading: cells occupied by disabled prisoners with no wall bars and inmates having to drag themselves across the floor and falling frequently; PAS "having to make a fuss" to get inmates supplied with basic needs, such as walking sticks, which are then taken away when a prisoner moves prison; and an incontinent prisoner with mental health problems sleeping naked on a urine-soaked mattress.
(18) Lorraine's life story reads like the harrowing epilogue to one of Dunbar's plays.
(19) Throughout this tournament, the striker with a bowl-cut straight out of Hull circa 1986 has lead the line superbly, made perceptive runs, found excellent scoring positions ... and squandered more opportunities than a boy who's been expelled from Eton, Harrow and every other fee-paying school in the land.
(20) The emir of Qatar , the world's richest country per capita, is poised to hand over power to his Harrow-educated son and heir in a rare peaceful transition for the tiny but globally influential Gulf state.
Horrid
Definition:
(a.) Rough; rugged; bristling.
(a.) Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Admittedly we've had the odd wretched experience – the long wait in casualty or for a bedpan, the horrid puréed dinners, the lost notes – but ultimately we've all been looked after, cured and called back for check-ups and therapies.
(2) Morales has horrid command, which isn't exactly what you want in a two-on, nobody out situation.
(3) It’s a relief doing a show where you don’t have to be horrid.
(4) "In the face of these horrid conditions, we think that's a pretty resilient performance," Mr Grigson said.
(5) Horrid cliche, hence perfect for David Cameron and the SNP – be careful what you wish for.
(6) I wait, hoping that R will step in, and luckily, because I hate myself for breaking such horrid news, he does.
(7) It's like gazing through a horrid little window into an awesome universe of pure blockheaded spite.
(8) I ask if there’s one thing he’d really recommend for me and he suggests a £225 black biker jacket with detachable sleeves , which is horrid, but I won’t hold that against him.
(9) He is joined in the most-borrowed author list by six children's writers – Daisy Meadows, the brand behind the Rainbow Magic series, Donaldson, Francesca Simon, author of the Horrid Henry series, Jacqueline Wilson, Kipper creator Mick Inkpen and the Beast Quest series' Adam Blade.
(10) To get a story out of politicians, whose self-regard is if anything even more over-developed than ours, mine, you have to do a fair amount of pretty horrid fawning and flattering.
(11) They're getting away with something horrid scot-free!
(12) We never show any horrid pictures, ever, as a matter of policy.
(13) "I think we have to be harshly realistic, which means we don't pretend we are chums of the Syrian regime – they are a ghastly regime, they are a horrid regime – but just as during the second world war Churchill and Roosevelt swallowed hard and dealt with Stalin, with the Soviet Union, not because they had any naivety about what Stalin represented but because that was necessary in order to defeat Hitler, and history judged them right in coming to that difficult but necessary judgment," Rifkind said.
(14) Det Ch Supt Russ Jackson, of Greater Manchester police , said on Monday: "We are committed to understanding the enormity of Cyril Smith's misconduct and working to try to understand that, and thereby, provide a picture of the extent of his offending, and with the CPS [Crown Prosecution Service] to get to a position of what we would have done had he still been alive, and thereby provide that understanding to the victims who have gone through such a horrid time."
(15) 'Horrid colonials destroy world heritage thing': we reveal the lies of Big Coral
(16) It strikes us though that parents and schools have a responsibility generally to educate children: children need to be taught that being horrid online is just as wrong and hurtful as being horrid face to face."
(17) Thomas Dekker groused that “the scene after the Epilogue hath been more blacke – a nasty bawdy jigge – than the most horrid scene in the play was”.
(18) All right, some of us have banged on for decades about this horrid, mealy-mouthed, catch-all word, hoping to limit its use.
(19) By the time George Osborne has completed presenting his austerity budget this Tuesday, there may be more than a few who are wishing an equally horrid fate on him.
(20) In 2000 May voted against the repeal of section 28, the horrid legislation brought in under Margaret Thatcher that banned local authorities and schools from “promoting” homosexuality – read: talking about it or offering information, advice and educational materials – and described gay couples as “pretended family relationships”.