Sentence examples for revolting amount from inspiring English sources

Whether your fellow bar-dwellers sneezed into their hand a few seconds ago, whether they just got off the filthy subway, or whether they failed to wash their hands when they went to the bathroom, there are definitely a revolting amount of germs clinging on to that pretzel you're lifting to your mouth.

I'm revolted by the amount of money he's making, but not by what he's doing.

But the president's approach is causing trouble on Capitol Hill, where rank-and-file Republicans staged a revolt Wednesday over the amount of money in the bill and the way it is spread among the states.

Thinking, Hugo tells us, in one of his most memorable aphorisms, always involves a certain amount of inner revolt.

The commons, a leftover from the Anglo-Saxon traditiof of shared usage of the land, were eaten away by centuries of enclosures (a euphemism for theft), a process that no amount of peasants' revolts or angry levelling of hedges could reverse.

In recent weeks, The Independent has reported a swelling revolt within the criminal justice system at new fees that some say amount to a "tax on justice".

Four times between 1880 and 1905, revolts started or reaching Buenos Aires shook the country and often achieved a fair amount of success.

Still an unjustifiable amount to blow on a glorified pedal car, but not quite as financially revolting as I'd anticipated – which somehow makes it worse.

1970s Recycling and revolt Friends of the Earth launched its first campaign, returning thousands of bottles to Schweppes to highlight the amount of glass wastage in the UK.

In what amounted to a revolt within his own Dawa party, Massoum announced that Abadi, a long-time ally of Maliki, would be nominated as prime minister.

It's absolutely revolting.