How to Use appalling in a Sentence

appalling

adjective

• We drove by an appalling accident on the highway.
• Does that sound great or appalling?
  — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Dec. 2025
• What happened to him is just appalling.
  — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Sep. 2025
• Teeth are the body’s first line of defense against appalling food.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2017
• There are the one-run games and their appalling 6-15 record in them.
  — Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 30 May 2025
• The death of an enemy is not less appalling than the death of a friend.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2023
• The things that came out of my mouth are honestly just appalling.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2022
• What a galling next chapter that would be in this appalling story.
  — David Von Drehle, Twin Cities, 19 June 2019
• Who approved this appalling hire?
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 29 Nov. 2025
• All kinds of various things around the gay stuff is appalling.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 22 Mar. 2018
• The fact that survivors had to turn to the media just to be heard is appalling.
  — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
• The toll is appalling and will continue to grow.
  — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2025
• There have been some appalling train tragedies due to lack of proper funding.
  — Joshua Sammons, Newsweek, 23 Mar. 2025
• The appalling health conditions at some schools are well known.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 Feb. 2025
• And some hypocrisies are appalling and should be strongly called out and condemned.
  — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2024
• The actions of these young people, and of the elites who run the schools, are more than appalling.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 13 Oct. 2023
• So there are a lot of really appalling contrasts that are hard to get my head around.
  — Jacqueline Landry, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
• Migraines can last for up to six days, which is appalling but not a guarantee.
  — Korin Miller, SELF, 7 Sep. 2018
• Many appalling things have been said about this partnership, likely all of it true.
  — Darryl Levings, kansascity.com, 19 May 2017
• Brian is such an appalling character that no amount of movie-star charm can blind you to it.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2020
• That these moral monsters have been welcomed to our shores with open arms is appalling and shameful.
  — Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
• The result, as Guse pointed out, can be appalling.
  — Jim Vinoski, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• This adds another turn of the screw to the problem of appalling opinions.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
• But as the sun rises, the appalling state of the beach becomes visible.
  — Nina Burleigh, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• More appalling than the scale of death was the spectacle of the bereaved survivors.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 25 Oct. 2017
• The destruction and loss of human life are appalling – from both sides of the conflict.
  — Daniel Markind, Forbes, 19 May 2021
• The list of money-making rip-offs that the scammer can partake in is lengthy and appalling.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2023
• What if…he was sunk in that dark flood of unstoppable harm, somehow adding to its appalling weight, lost in it….
  — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2020
• The creators made the destruction of the cruise ship by nanofibers appalling and gruesome.
  — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 9 Aug. 2024
• The amount of funding that’s been cut for refugee resettlement is just appalling.
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 8 Feb. 2026