How to Use galling in a Sentence

galling

adjective

• This is a galling defeat.
• This galling notion sets her on a rampage.
  — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Feb. 2026
• The galling thing is that the president didn't drop all duties.
  — Luke Darby, GQ, 30 Sep. 2017
• These claims are both galling and true enough for their speakers’ purposes.
  — John Herrman, New York Times, 27 June 2017
• But what is most galling here is that Newsom could have nailed Allen but didn't.
  — Marcos Bretón, sacbee, 11 May 2018
• Which makes their success all the more galling for Real’s victims.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2018
• Indeed, that’s what makes their omission galling to critics of the Césars.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
• Bad as that choice was, the lame, softball interview with Watts was even more galling.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 19 Oct. 2012
• And one of those losses is perhaps the most galling in the program’s history.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 18 June 2019
• Since then, the Delta Devils have lost a galling 190 such games in a row.
  — Sam Blum, The Athletic, 6 Jan. 2025
• And that’s the most galling part of the mainstreaming of Al Sharpton.
  — Seth Mandel, Twin Cities, 2 Aug. 2019
• Perhaps most galling is the 17 percent tax rate levied on Israeli goods.
  — The Editors, National Review, 3 Apr. 2025
• The selective moral outrage here is galling, predictable and oh so blatant.
  — Fox News, 12 June 2018
• Yet what is perhaps even more galling about the article is its rank partisanship.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 9 Feb. 2017
• The unfairness is all the more galling because of the fierce competition for jobs.
  — The Economist, 22 July 2017
• This fiction will be galling to some people, but deeply reassuring to others.
  — Joshua Rothman, The New Yorker, 15 Oct. 2024
• But to have the hypocrisy be laid out so starkly, just a few clicks away on the same website, is particularly galling.
  — James Folta, Literary Hub, 9 Feb. 2026
• Their ninth loss in a row wasn’t quite as galling as the two Oakland blowouts leading up to it, but the sad song still remains the same.
  — Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 21 June 2019
• Most galling, Huggins couldn't afford a lawyer but was obliged by the loan contract to pay for the company's.
  — Peter Whoriskey, courant.com, 2 July 2018
• Recent weeks have seen a galling downturn in results, and the numbers in important areas are stark.
  — Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 26 Feb. 2025
• Any criticism of their behavior or their opinions is galling, is somehow an attempt to erase them off the face of the earth.
  — Danielle Tcholakian, Longreads, 17 Feb. 2018
• Most galling to Raisman is that out front, officials acted as if the gymnasts were pampered.
  — Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Each has secrets — the galling histories that haunt anyone who has lived through war, flight and deprivation.
  — M. T. Anderson, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2016
• That makes their leaders’ abject failure to build a viable South Sudan since then all the more galling.
  — Alex De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2014
• Perhaps the most galling part of Barr’s speech, under current circumstances, is its hymn to the pious life.
  — Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2019
• The really galling fact is that, even after those cuts, Sanders’s plan would still cost more than $36 trillion over the next ten years.
  — Michael Tanner, National Review, 8 Apr. 2020
• The fact their taxes help support those practices is particularly galling.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026
• In the most galling but predictable sense, that same scoreline would be repeated, only in Newcastle’s favour.
  — Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 27 Dec. 2024
• That’s a shame, because there are undoubtedly many galling stories to unearth from the series’ 25-year-run.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
• Bandwagon fandom truthers may find this especially galling.
  — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026