horrendous situation

collocation in English

meaningsofhorrendousandsituation

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horrendous
adjective
uk
/həˈren.dəs/us
/həˈren.dəs/
extremely unpleasant ...
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situation
noun[C]
uk
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌsɪtʃ.uˈeɪ.ʃən/
the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time ...
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(Definition ofhorrendousandsituationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Even the chairman of the passenger transport authority has said that this is ahorrendoussituation.
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That is ahorrendoussituationthat cannot be tolerated.
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Thathorrendoussituationcannot be tolerated by any civilised society.
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The disease presents farmers with ahorrendoussituation.
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I believe that within the new clause there must be more certainty for farmers, in view of thehorrendoussituationin which they may find themselves.
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It was ahorrendoussituation.
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Expectations of swift rescue from all those horrendous situations will not and cannot be fulfilled with ease.
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Surely we can do better for people who have come from such horrendous situations in prisons or comparable circumstances.
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The situation is not as bad as it was but it can still lead to horrendous situations where people waste vast amounts of time.
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People are right to want to flee horrendous situations.
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However, nurses and doctors sometimes have to endure horrendous situations.
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At the time, luddites were faced with horrendous situations.
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There would be the most horrendous situations.
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