How to Use appalling in a Sentence

appalling

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  • We drove by an appalling accident on the highway.
  • The details that have been released are shocking, appalling and disgusting.
    — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 13 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • But the whole is an appalling, funny, faithful account of Heller’s masterpiece.
    — John Timpane, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
  • The hope is that this recent appalling attack on this country’s fiscal viability will be the last.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Such appalling acts of wickedness will do nothing but strengthen our resolve to defeat such twisted ideologies and beliefs.
    — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 22 May 2018
  • As a result, there are increasing reports of migrants being sold in slave auctions before facing the most appalling conditions.
    — Nima Elbagir and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 11 June 2018
  • What happened to African American victims of the flood was appalling, and just the inhumanity of how they were treated.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 26 May 2018
  • To have 80 percent of your engineers with an operating infraction is appalling. .
    — Andrea Estes, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Apr. 2018
  • As the train bearing the Associated Press correspondents passed east, the reports at each stop grew more appalling.
    — sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 June 2018
  • Kiri feels rooted in a series of recent British cases involving the appalling deaths of children who were known to social services, and who should have been protected.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 12 Apr. 2018
  • After a truly appalling performance, the Brazilians were inconsolable.
    — SI.com, 13 June 2018
  • Their offense was appalling but, nevertheless, the Astros labored James Paxton.
    — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 16 Apr. 2018
  • The racist chatter had been so ugly, that her sweet prince had to issue an unusual statement, defending his then-girlfriend against the appalling attacks in traditional and social media.
    — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 21 May 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Another season of the appalling but irresistible Emily in Paris!
    — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2024
  • So now Murphy shapes his horrible narrative through vile and appalling character portrayals of Lyle and of me and disheartening slander.
    — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 21 Sep. 2024

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