Sentence examples for appalling sort from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "appalling sort" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type or category of something that is considered shocking or unacceptable.
Example: "The appalling sort of behavior displayed at the event left many attendees feeling uncomfortable."
Alternatives: "shocking kind" or "outrageous type".

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It's a weapon, of course, and a phallic symbol it has an appalling sort of bulb at its tip but it is also a magic wand.

It's a weapon, of course, and a phallic symbol — it has an appalling sort of bulb at its tip — but it is also a magic wand.

This is a rather conventional detective novel, except that the villains are Nazis and neo-Nazis, and the crimes are unusually grisly: incestuous rape (homo and hetero), plus murders of the most appalling sort.

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It's both fascinating and appalling the sort of extravagant technically superior spectacle that only a big Hollywood movie company could afford to make, and the story of a man about whom only the Establishment could become genuinely sentimental.

But correlations can hide the most appalling biases, the sort that rank black men at a higher risk for reoffending.

The dichotomy of Sam's time-out and counseling compared to Bobby's suspension and permanent record might seem appalling, but these sorts of inequities occur in schools across the country every day.

Who else will sort my appalling glut of seed packets?

"It was sort of appalling to me," Ms. Harada said.

All four dancers were in black clothes (by Elizabeth Kurtzman), including some sort of appalling headgear.

"It seemed to contain chunks of some sort of appalling turgid brownish oozing cake," Ms. Abu-Jaber said.

I was an early pioneer of that look in the days when girls would say, 'Are you really going to wear that?', because you were supposed to wear some sort of appalling silk paisley shirt with three buttons undone.

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