How to Use disgusting in a Sentence

disgusting

adjective
  • What a disgusting way to treat people.
  • There has to be a less disgusting way.
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 Dec. 2025
  • But with food, things just dry up, or start to look disgusting.
    Kei Lim june 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
  • The whole thing is just disgusting.
    Kimi Robinson, USA Today, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Get a room, this is disgusting!
    Daniela Avila, PEOPLE, 17 June 2026
  • The man is disgusting, and his time in the limelight is long past over.
    Monique Judge, The Root, 2 June 2017
  • They have been called the most disgusting creatures in the ocean.
    Nicola Di Girolamo, The Conversation, 24 July 2019
  • To try and twist my words to have an excuse to take digs at my child is disgusting.
    Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 9 Sep. 2022
  • Some of the abuse that came later, though, was disgusting.
    Kevin Coulson, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • So my sheets looked hideous, and my toenails were just disgusting the whole six months.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 May 2024
  • The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable.
    Longreads, 8 May 2018
  • And the fact that people can be so disgusting is just kind of beyond me.
    Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Why did my country have to be disgusting and full of poor villages?
    Jason Potere, ABC News, 24 May 2021
  • And putting it on her fingers and in your babies mouth is disgusting.
    Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 5 Sep. 2025
  • My next project was to turn my attention to my low-key disgusting sheet pans.
    Bon Appétit, 19 Jan. 2022
  • The fact that candy corn is disgusting is not just my opinion, though.
    Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Sep. 2020
  • And just like the first wound on his back, the new disgusting wound is infected.
    Ryan Parker, Peoplemag, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Both dogs got tapeworm—which was disgusting—and had to stay out in the yard till the pills went to work.
    T. Coraghessan Boyle, The New Yorker, 31 Oct. 2022
  • That's also disgusting, so don't do that.
    Skyler Caruso, People.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • That’s disgusting and a real low blow to talk sh*t ab an unborn child.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 23 Feb. 2021
  • How disgusting of you to turn your back against your country & your people.
    Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Add in moisture and soap scum, and kitchen sinks can get pretty disgusting.
    Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Add in moisture and soap scum, and kitchen sinks can get pretty disgusting.
    Halee Miller Van Ryswyk, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2025
  • While trying not to think about how disgusting the sidewalk is.
    Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 17 May 2016
  • Chris Hayes appalled by ‘disgusting' push to keep kids out of drag shows.
    Fox News, 17 June 2022
  • The cow, that grubworm thing, was just disgusting and awesome and all of the stuff.
    Wired, 29 July 2022
  • Knowing what’s disgusting and what isn’t is supposed to keep you safe.
    Emma Grey Ellis, WIRED, 4 Apr. 2018
  • What a disgusting story all around.
    Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026
  • To be accused of being groomers, that's the most disgusting thing.
    Doug Thompson, Arkansas Online, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The litter box was still disgusting.
    Jennifer Wolfgram, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026

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