Example sentences for: abysmal

How can you use “abysmal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • However, no account of the Northwest's soaked misery surpasses that of the great American explorer and abysmal speller William Clark, who recorded his observations nearly 200 years ago.

  • Duvall has an abysmal singing voice--gargling and off-key--but his speaking voice, his presence, is insistently musical.

  • The idea of spoofing the superficial, back-stabbing world of teen pageants seems funny to most critics, but all agree that the execution is abysmal.

  • This directive, according to the state's Director of School Education, was meant to improve the abysmal standards of English, both written and spoken, at the school level.

  • William Jefferson Clinton's "abysmal record on liberty," as Weisberg calls it, is, indeed, a fatal twist of irony, incredible and troubling.


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