How to Use galling in a Sentence

galling

adjective
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  • This is a galling defeat.
  • And that’s the most galling part of the mainstreaming of Al Sharpton.
    — Seth Mandel, Twin Cities, 2 Aug. 2019
  • More such scenes followed, each more galling than the last.
    — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • The galling thing is that the president didn't drop all duties.
    — Luke Darby, GQ, 30 Sep. 2017
  • But what is most galling here is that Newsom could have nailed Allen but didn't.
    — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 11 May 2018
  • Indeed, that’s what makes their omission galling to critics of the Césars.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Their ninth loss in a row wasn’t quite as galling as the two Oakland blowouts leading up to it, but the sad song still remains the same.
    — Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 21 June 2019
  • Bad as that choice was, the lame, softball interview with Watts was even more galling.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2012
  • Which makes their success all the more galling for Real’s victims.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
  • And one of those losses is perhaps the most galling in the program’s history.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 18 June 2019
  • Yet for all the galling vitriol, Manfred does not hide.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • Most galling, Huggins couldn't afford a lawyer but was obliged by the loan contract to pay for the company's.
    — Peter Whoriskey, courant.com, 2 July 2018
  • An offseason exodus like the Mount's can be as galling as a 3 a.m. fire alarm.
    — Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com, 11 May 2017
  • These claims are both galling and true enough for their speakers’ purposes.
    — John Herrman, New York Times, 27 June 2017
  • The Dodgers reminded San Diego of the kid everyone hates in high school … rich, good looking and, most galling of all, smart.
    — Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
  • Among the most galling, for Clinton, was Trump’s whiplash-fast about-face from populist crusader to . .
    — Bess Levin, vanityfair.com, 11 Sep. 2017
  • The unfairness is all the more galling because of the fierce competition for jobs.
    — The Economist, 22 July 2017
  • The really galling fact is that, even after those cuts, Sanders’s plan would still cost more than $36 trillion over the next ten years.
    — Michael Tanner, National Review, 8 Apr. 2020
  • That makes their leaders’ abject failure to build a viable South Sudan since then all the more galling.
    — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2014
  • Perhaps the most galling part of Barr’s speech, under current circumstances, is its hymn to the pious life.
    — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2019
  • That the players then turned in what must rank as one of the most inept performances of any club in the Premier League era must be galling to the point of offensive.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Most galling, perhaps, is that the Kremlin has been deploying the same drones as Tehran in its assault on Ukrainian cities.
    — Daryna Mayer, NBC News, 17 Apr. 2024
  • But even more galling to gun-control advocates was that just 38 of the chamber’s 54 Democrats voted in favor.
    — Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The two titles came after Alabama finished second in the polls in 1977 in a galling result for Tide fans.
    — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 25 July 2017
  • Any criticism of their behavior or their opinions is galling, is somehow an attempt to erase them off the face of the earth.
    — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 17 Feb. 2018
  • The selective moral outrage here is galling, predictable and oh so blatant.
    — Fox News, 12 June 2018
  • The battery issues that plague both phones are especially galling, as has Apple's refusal to come clean about the scale of the problem.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Most galling to Raisman is that out front, officials acted as if the gymnasts were pampered.
    — Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
  • And its pretty galling for their future to be decided by the U.S. president.
    — Suyin Haynes, Time, 7 June 2018
  • The first and most galling is the resurfacing of Chris Lowell, one of the jurors who acquitted Durst in the Galveston murder trial and then quickly befriended him.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024

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