Sentence examples for appalling run from inspiring English sources

This is amazing, given how beaten the man looked after that appalling run after the turn.

So when George Osborne arrived in office last year, there was hope that after an appalling run of results the team's performances would improve.

Amid the furore over Kevin Mirallas's missed penalty as Everton's appalling run continued in their last game, against West Bromwich Albion, there was also clear dissent against Martínez when he withdrew the lively Muhamed Besic, who he claimed was injured.

With some justification the manager has attributed most of the blame for his team's appalling run of results – two wins and 16 defeats from their last 23 Premier League matches – to bad finishing and has been allowed to break Crystal Palace's transfer record in an effort to address that.

That appalling run-out decision to reprieve Gooch didn't hurt either.

Hampden Park witnessed redemption for Jason Cummings as Hibernian moved to within a game of ending an appalling Scottish Cup run but the man of the moment, and this match, was to prove an unlikely one.

The Egyptian state, despite its appalling record in running other things, wields a large force of riot police that is well equipped, highly trained and very experienced, and so less likely to provoke outrage by excessive violence.

That rushing total was even more appalling considering UCLA ran for 47 yards in the first quarter.

A third pit stop relegated the Brazilian to eighth place, continuing his run of appalling luck at his home circuit.

It is an appalling regime, a racket run by gangsters – but it does, unnervingly, have pretensions to some of the attributes of a nation state.

At the end of the innings Boyd Rankin reminded us that tailenders are not only limited batsmen; they are often appalling judges of a run (well, I guess they do not get much practice).