How to Use appalling in a Sentence

appalling

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  • We drove by an appalling accident on the highway.
  • The actions of these young people, and of the elites who run the schools, are more than appalling.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The death of an enemy is not less appalling than the death of a friend.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2023
  • The things that came out of my mouth are honestly just appalling.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2022
  • More appalling than the scale of death was the spectacle of the bereaved survivors.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The creators made the destruction of the cruise ship by nanofibers appalling and gruesome.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2024
  • And some hypocrisies are appalling and should be strongly called out and condemned.
    — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2024
  • All kinds of various things around the gay stuff is appalling.
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 22 Mar. 2018
  • This was an appalling day in the United States Congress.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 20 Dec. 2017
  • But as the sun rises, the appalling state of the beach becomes visible.
    — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The weather in England right now is appalling, and the country is in the grip of a cost-of-living crisis.
    — Ed Caesar, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • This adds another turn of the screw to the problem of appalling opinions.
    — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The destruction and loss of human life are appalling – from both sides of the conflict.
    — Daniel Markind, Forbes, 19 May 2021
  • That’s a galling turn of events, made even more appalling by footage of the actual desert skirmish that cost the men their lives.
    — Nick Schager, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2021
  • What a galling next chapter that would be in this appalling story.
    — David Von Drehle, Twin Cities, 19 June 2019
  • The list of money-making rip-offs that the scammer can partake in is lengthy and appalling.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
  • So there are a lot of really appalling contrasts that are hard to get my head around.
    — Jacqueline Landry, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
  • The speech was 41 minutes long, at least half of which were completely appalling.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Sep. 2017
  • My thoughts and prayers are with President Trump and the victims of this appalling attack.
    — Nik Popli, TIME, 14 July 2024
  • The appalling actions taken by the few bad actors who made the news for all the wrong reasons in the past few years should not reflect on the rest of us.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 30 May 2024
  • What if…he was sunk in that dark flood of unstoppable harm, somehow adding to its appalling weight, lost in it….
    — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2020
  • For starters, a large part of the Napoleonic myth rests on the idea that the emperor lived in appalling conditions on the island.
    — Julia Buckley, CNN, 5 May 2021
  • Brian is such an appalling character that no amount of movie-star charm can blind you to it.
    — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Migraines can last for up to six days, which is appalling but not a guarantee.
    — Korin Miller, SELF, 7 Sep. 2018
  • What may be even more appalling is that, to date, Democrats haven’t yet called out the perpetrators of this campaign.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Some suffer appalling abuse at the hands of their employers.
    — Shakeeb Asrar, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Given the side's appalling start to the campaign, the fans are likely to be content with this, and will look to push on to improve next season.
    — SI.com, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Take away the appalling abuse he's inflicted on women for decades....
    — Tomás Mier, PEOPLE.com, 24 Nov. 2021
  • One or two people in Netanyahu’s cabinet have said the most appalling things.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The resourcefulness of the people is as astonishing as the conditions are appalling.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024

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