Example sentences for: appalling

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

  • The tribute to his father is touching and well-deserved, but his views on the estate tax are appalling.

  • 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."

  • That Big Secret has often been that Jews are not what they seem to be: This line of thought provides for a certain macabre entertainment, but it is also a lesson in how the most inane ideas can have the most appalling consequences.

  • Thus, Paul Craig Roberts argues in a recent issue of Business Week that "industrial policy fostered appalling investment, banking, and monetary practices," and that Asia's woes prove that Ronald Reagan was right and his critics were wrong.

  • The occasion was an op-ed piece I had written for the New York Times , in which I had pointed out that while wages and working conditions in the new export industries of the Third World are appalling, they are a big improvement over the "previous, less visible rural poverty."


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