Sentence examples for to appalling from inspiring English sources
verb
To depress or discourage with fear; to impress with fear in such a manner that the mind shrinks, or loses its firmness; to inundate with sudden terror or horror; to dismay.
- The sight appalled the stoutest heart.
This kind of life can lead to appalling consequences.
It is hard not to agree with Jeannette Blot that "women are attracted to appalling men".
But Gröning also admits being a passive witness to appalling crimes against humanity.
For a while she bounced from homeless shelter to appalling city-supplied apartment and back.
The older generation, without any experience of a drink and drugs culture, had been subjected to appalling scenes.
New York politicians and business leaders began to grapple with an economic outlook that ranges from awful to appalling.
He said: "President Putin faces a clear choice in how he decides to respond to this appalling tragedy.
It is thought to have contributed to the appalling weather that so hampered Napoleon two months later at Waterloo.
Like most MPs and the public I want to see an end to this appalling practice here and abroad.
Russia's failure to do so had contributed to an appalling tragedy".
She found his "unwillingness to admit there was a miscommunication to be appalling".
