How to Use appalling in a Sentence

appalling

adjective

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Take away the appalling abuse he's inflicted on women for decades....
  — Tomás Mier, PEOPLE.com, 24 Nov. 2021
• These appalling incidents join many others of the same ilk.
  — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 17 Oct. 2020
• Singer’s clients did was appalling, but what about sending a child to an elite private school instead of a public one?
  — Zan Romanoff, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2020
• The Border Patrol called it the work of human smugglers, and a sector chief called it appalling and vicious.
  — NBC News, 1 Apr. 2021
• Even more appalling was the fact that soon thereafter William Sr. threw himself into the business of banking and the sport of horse racing.
  — Town & Country, 1 Nov. 2022
• In Florida, the adult booster rate is an appalling 7.7%.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
• All this has made West’s almost casual slurring of Jews all the more appalling.
  — Bill Carter, CNN, 2 Nov. 2022
• For them and their families to be taken advantage of in the name of profit is appalling.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 15 June 2023
• Another season of the appalling but irresistible Emily in Paris!
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 27 Sep. 2024
• The reputation of the famed winemakers took a hit last year when reports emerged of migrant workers living in appalling conditions and other labour violations.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Europe, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024