6 sentences with 'horrendous'
Example sentences and phrases with the word horrendous and other words derived from it.
• « With or without free bread, the average life expectancy of a Roman was 45 years for men and 34 for women, the latter due to the horrendous conditions of childbearing. »
• « The use of slave labour only grew over time, although by the mid-16th century Europeans were increasingly turning to African slaves, resulting in one of the most horrendous injustices in history: the transatlantic slave trade. »
• « However, despite the success of all these movements, with all the hopes and aspirations of their supporters over the last century, Europe had degenerated into a horrendous and costly war. »
• « However, Japanese forces resisted every inch taken by the Americans. It took American forces about two months to take the island of Okinawa, resulting in some 100,000 Japanese and 65,000 American casualties. The prospect of the invasion of Japan itself was therefore extremely daunting. It seemed clear that the United States would ultimately prevail, but with a horrendous loss of life. This ultimately led to the deployment of the most terrible weapons ever invented by the human race: nuclear weapons. »
• « The term "genocide" was adopted immediately after World War II because of the need to designate, to name, the most horrendous crime perpetrated by the Nazi regime: the systematic, state-directed murder of European Jews. »
• « Because of this horrendous food chain, the scientific community considers the occurrence of thyroid cancer in countless children in Chernobyl, who are the most likely to consume milk, to be irreparable; moreover, it has been found that radioactive iodine concentrates more easily in growing people. »