Sentence examples for appalling year from inspiring English sources

He also said that the Hawks had "picked an appalling year to challenge us".

But those words were given true meaning by US comic Tig Notaro back in 2012, when she stunned audiences with an unflinching description of her appalling year.

As for Tesco itself, almost any outcome is possible after an appalling year dominated by the £263m accounting scandal, the exit of chief executive Philip Clarke and the suspension of several senior managers.

He spent four appalling years there, forbidden to speak with his guards and with no knowledge of what was happening in France.

Yet what could recovery possibly have meant for my mother but appalling years in a nursing home, incontinent, bewildered, incapable of feeding herself, and unable to recognise her visitors?

People around the world stood in solidarity with my brothers and sisters during the most appalling years of apartheid in South Africa, and we won.

An appalling four years passed before the follow-up to the 2009 smash hit appeared.

A State of Emergency declared by you-know-who... and the election called off! It's been a popular thing during the appalling eight years of W to occasionally go on a "news fast" in order to keep our brains from exploding.

Equus Fund, for example, trades at a tempting 27% discount but runs up an appalling 12% a year in expenses.

And not only that, [but] the rest of the world sees the things that we see in this country, and the rest of the world does not have to deal with half a dozen appalling slaughters every year.

It is appalling that seven years after Winterbourne View, learning disabled people still get poorer care.