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
• 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
• 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
• The list of money-making rip-offs that the scammer can partake in is lengthy and appalling.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• But right now, The Lesson is an appalling example of our moral decay.
  — Armond White, National Review, 12 July 2023
• Even more appalling, Teran suffered at least 57 gunshot wounds, from head to toe.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
• That wasn’t just Manchin, or even Kyrsten Sinema, with her appalling theatrical thumbs down.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2021
• An appalling thing for a doctor to say, perhaps, but Ella has been wondering the same thing.
  — John Anderson, wsj.com, 25 Apr. 2023
• But these stories also present a problem: Each one is, yes, appalling.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 13 July 2021
• Looking back at it a decade later, what happened was appalling.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Aug. 2022
• The violence in this country is appalling, out of control.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Apr. 2023
• All of this plays like the assembling of clues in an appalling detective story.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Nov. 2022
• Sometimes shockingly so, to the point peeping a YouTube clip of the original was appalling.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2023
• One of my takeaways from these travels through the minors 50 years ago was that some of the conditions were downright appalling.
  — Bob Ryan, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
• For a man who succumbs to that kind of despairing metaphor, the prospect of nuclear holocaust does not seem so appalling.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Nov. 2022
• The Bakkers were many things to many people: appalling, inspiring, laughable, sad.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2021
• The country’s proudly sweeping First Amendment rights make plenty of room for the outlandish and appalling as well as the ordinary and the tame.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• Less than an hour in, the first racer waved his boat over and struggled aboard, defeated by the appalling conditions.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024