How to Use appalling in a Sentence

appalling

adjective

• We drove by an appalling accident on the highway.
• Migraines can last for up to six days, which is appalling but not a guarantee.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 7 Sep. 2018
• Save your treadmill runs for when the weather or conditions are truly appalling or unsafe.
  — Emilia Benton, SELF, 11 Aug. 2018
• And while some of the worst facilities have been reformed or shuttered, children are still held in appalling conditions.
  — Shaila Dewan, New York Times, 22 June 2018
• This appalling opinion was Kavanaugh’s audition for the Supreme Court.
  — Essence.com, 12 July 2018
• Damascus is contending with Syria’s appalling civil war.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2018
• The traumas caused by gas attacks, the appalling lack of sanitation in the trenches, and the absence of antibiotics often overwhelmed field hospitals.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2018
• The images of crying toddlers among the nearly 2,000 children who were taken from their parents during a six-week period this spring are appalling.
  — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2018
• Trying to read the first sentence of this appalling story from the Associated Press, Maddow broke down, near tears, and could not finish her show.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 20 June 2018
• Yet as appalling as Luther's intolerance of his Jewish contemporaries was, Luther was not an anti-Semite.
  — Mark Pratt, Fox News, 10 July 2018
• It’s hard to see the callousness of this administration’s decisions, the appalling lack of humanity in the practice of tearing mothers from their children.
  — Maria E. Andreu, Teen Vogue, 18 June 2018
• But while Fallon backed off the critical refrain, hearing comedians take the moral high ground against appalling acts of the administration seems to have become a routinized part of late night.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 20 June 2018
• What was more appalling than the majority’s weak and unsupported decision, though, was the manner in which this curious threesome conducted the public hearing.
  — Jeffrey Harlan, latimes.com, 10 July 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024