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Example sentences for: galling

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

Her repeated use of that word--"success"--was especially galling.
Terrible things had always happened to him, and always would; this was only the latest of them, but it was a terrible thing of a specifically galling nature.
To think that this abstemiousness and this display of virtue will primarily benefit the IRS is really just so galling I can hardly stand it.
The idea that a country founded upon high-flown principles has come to care more about fame, money, and accumulating stuff than about the principles has long been galling to those who hold the principles dear.
(But how galling it must be for witness Alan Dershowitz that neither the Post nor the Times mentions his name.)