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How to use appalling in a sentence

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Equally appalling was the story of Raja, who witnessed his mother immolating herself in front of him.
Leaving little ones alone in a car while you go off for hours is clearly appalling.
They were utterly appalling with their rotten or missing teeth, tangled, matted hair, and yellowing scurvy eyes.
Left without having a single drink thanks to the appalling rudeness of a waitress.
That said however neither side deserved to lose a game that was played under the most appalling conditions.
A perfect day had begun with a wedding reception in a marquee at the family home, but had ended with the most appalling and macabre tragedy.
A severe sandstorm driven by strong northerly winds made conditions for the British soldiers in Kuwait truly appalling on the eve of battle.
And it was a really appalling hanging, in the respect that the minister kept them on the scaffold waiting for 25 minutes as he gave a sermon.
The history of mankind is littered with appalling acts of barbarism, cruelty and hatred.
Most of it is balderdash, and has very little, if anything, to do with the appalling rate of fatalities on our roads.
They are now struggling in the margins of Indian society and live in appalling poverty.
Is it the appalling language, the irregular sleeping patterns, or the continual drain on your bank balance?
So many appalling barbarities have visited so many people over the centuries, but God has done nothing to prevent them.
I am so angry at this appalling, second or third-rate service being provided to non-private patients.
But I'm never going to thrash it out with them because they think my taste in music appalling so I never talk to them.
The naivete, hateful ignorance and misguided arguments of his article were appalling to say the least.
He will not get up on his hind trotters and explain this appalling legislation.
The 4x4 can much more easily deal with his potholes and appalling road surfaces.
Young pigs are kept in semi-darkness to minimise fighting and aggression caused through frustration due to their appalling conditions.
They toil long hours in appalling conditions in machine shops and restaurants.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Tremendous long and lean the upper part of him looked, and the cicatrice upon his brow made his ghastliness the more appalling.
The mongols were the most appalling barbarians whom the world has ever seen.
But it was over Martinique that the hurricane raged in the most appalling manner.
If this experiment had failed, the results, judged by the actual mortality among the uninoculated, would have been appalling.
But even after so much had been recovered, the residue to be refunded was appalling.
It was followed by a fear, an appalling fear, more painful than the remorse.
No wonder there is an appalling infant mortality, while a childbed death is too often the fate of the forspent mother.
At another place the musicianship of one instrumentalist was truly appalling.
The amount of time, money, eyesight and handcraft expended among ourselves on letter writing so-called is simply appalling.
On my way homeward, at reno, I encountered a simoon of most appalling power.
Crowds of weird-like savages would often be collected on the bluffs, watching the appalling phenomenon of the passing steamer.
Hardly anything could better illustrate the appalling mental position of the camarilla that has got to go.
The howling of the winds in the cwms and dingles which run down the p. 13mountain on every side was really appalling.
The demand for labour had given rise to appalling abuses, especially in the matter of child labour.
Her standing rigging, being of wire, was merely rusted, but her running gear was something too appalling to think about.
But we are more struck with the appalling fidelity of the following scene in a tale named the divorcee.
Whatever appertains to the record of his appalling fall is treasurable as an addition to the narrative in our popular histories.
There was something in the moody and dogged silence of this pertinacious companion that was mysterious and appalling.
An absolute statistic of the per centage of suicides due to John Barleycorn would be appalling.
I abhor the appalling and moribund monkey language myself, which hasn't had a new noun since the Middle Ages.
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