Sentence examples for appalling sights from inspiring English sources

For over four days we witnessed appalling sights from the crash scene.

Cabinet member for housing Gillian Campbell has witnessed "appalling sights" on door-to-door visits to check on private renters, she says.

In his diary, Patton described the place as "one of the most appalling sights that I have ever seen".

It is an appalling sight.

It is an appalling sight when politicians settle their disagreements at the expense of the lives of young soldiers.

Perhaps the most terrifying and appalling sight was when, after the first explosion, people started to jump from the top floors of the first tower.

The Place St Germain des Pres and the Rue de Rennes running from the Place to Montparnasse station was an appalling sight late tonight.

"It's basically an appalling sight," said Keith Sherper, the director of the United States Agency for International Development in Kampala, who is assisting the Ugandan Government in the clean-up.

Meanwhile, a forced laborer from Ukraine, working in Hamburg, is treated charitably by her camp commander, and, at Bergen-Belsen, a British lieutenant writes, "It was the most appalling sight I have ever seen or indeed ever will see".

As an active-duty soldier in 1854-55 hadhad witnessed the slaughter of the Crimean War, and he vividly recalled both the agonizing death of his brother Dmitry from tuberculosis in 1856 and the appalling sight — and sound — of a man being guillotined in Paris in 1857 (it was partly this experience that made him a staunch opponent of the death penalty).

So we have the appalling sight of Gove on Friday, proclaiming himself a proud believer in the UK even though it was obvious to anyone who cared to look that a leave vote would propel Scotland towards saying yes in a second independence referendum.