Example sentences for: appalling

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

  • But it went on to note "that India's own record on human rights has been appalling, with the complaints registered with the National Human Rights Commission exceeding 30,000 last year."

  • "Madeleine Albright, to Bill Clinton, shortly after her appalling discovery that the president had promised Slobodan Milosevic a job at Revlon if only he would sign the damn peace treaty."

  • Roger Altman is a former deputy treasury secretary and continuing Clinton intimate whose investment company, Evercore Partners, owns American Media, which in turn owns the National Enquirer , the Star , and--most appalling of all, because it is so clearly the most nutty tabloid in America--the Weekly World News .

  • A society whose indigenous religion centers on nature worship for decades has tolerated appalling environmental damage — commercially exploiting its own nature reserves for timber, lining river banks and beds with concrete, and filling its air, water, and land with dioxins and other pollutants.

  • It should further be noted that Haldeman's eagerness to enable Nixon's Jew-hating, which may have stemmed from his tendency to pander to all of Nixon's worst instincts, or may have reflected sincere anti-Semitism of his own--Chatterbox has no idea--does nothing to mitigate the appalling bigotry of Nixon's comments.


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