Sentence examples for appalling winter from inspiring English sources

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Liverpool narrowly won the championship, although probably would not have done so had the season not been prolonged by appalling winter weather.

Wolves seemed odds on for the Championship, but an appalling winter with its endless cancellations extended the season well into the summer.

He was one of thousands of British PoWs forced to traipse several hundred miles during the Long March of 1945, which saw many of them die in appalling winter conditions.

Photographs of the appalling winter conditions in which matches still went ahead are accompanied by a remark from one of the contemporary voices used sparingly throughout the text: "Imagine Agüero in slush like that today!" Actually, you can quite easily visualise the little Argentinian thriving in a penalty-area quagmire, as Ian St John or even Jimmy Greaves once did.

But the exhibition brings together an unprecedented collection of documents and artefacts recording other exploits, including a sketch by Victor Campbell, expedition leader of the northern party of Terra Nova, depicting the tiny ice cave in which he and five others survived an appalling winter.

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There were an appalling 4,371 murders — 11 people killed every day.

The appalling 2016 league form has not been forgotten – a strong start is essential.

The appalling 1980s nerve-gasing of the Kurds is well documented.

In their form, their liquid, droplike appearance, they distill the essence of this appalling summer.

"A little of this, a little of that -- I think this would have been considered appalling a decade ago".

It was an appalling summer, too, with an average of fifteen hundred babies dying each week in the city; lean, miserable, wailing little souls carried off wholesale by dysentery.

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