Sentence examples for appalling fate from inspiring English sources

The expedition has become part of Canadian folklore, in part because of the crew's appalling fate.

Despite his sombre black suit there was, yet again, little in the way of an apology for the eight-year-old's appalling fate.

Assuming you embrace this appalling fate, you'll want to put your name to a memoir; you might even write it yourself.

Their murders took place over a year after the murder of Rachel Nickell and, if the police had acted on the information they already held regarding Robert Napper, Bissett and her daughter would not have met such an appalling fate.

It is impossible to imagine the sequence of events that led to the utter terror and appalling fate of 700 souls lost off the Mediterranean coast last weekend – only days after 400 others drowned in a similar incident en route to Europe.

And, surely, not you, and not we, but they: people whose appalling fates we can imagine but do not share.

Trapped in the ice for years and afflicted by scurvy, starvation and, possibly, lead poisoning from their poorly preserved tins of food, the men had suffered appalling fates.

The novel's chief protagonist, 23-year-old Bucky Cantor, an athletic young man declared unfit for military service due to his poor eyesight, agonises about the appalling fates that await the victims: he's a playground director, God-like in the eyes of his young charges, a source of unimpeachable rectitude and kindness.

Today, as for a number of weeks, at least fifty thousand Sri Lankan Tamil civilians are stuck as refugees on a beach in the northeast corner of their country, trapped between two combatants — the government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a banned terrorist and separatist guerrilla organization — that have repeatedly shown an appalling indifference to their fate.

Holding thousands of vulnerable people on Lesbos in appalling conditions with no knowledge of their fate inevitably creates an incendiary atmosphere of fear and despondency.

During a recent interview at Ms. Rice's office in the museum studies department at George Washington University, the editors said they tried to balance appalling descriptions of neck bells and whips with objects that gave slaves some control over their fate.