Example Sentences

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"Social media is appallingly toxic," he told AFP.

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

His colleagues are given duties at which they either excel or fail appallingly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 2, 2025

For all of the time, effort and money, not to mention emotional distress, the results have been appallingly minimal.

From Salon • Feb. 5, 2025

This pathway is now so well trodden as to have become a trope: the male feminist who deeply, appallingly wasn’t.

From Slate • Jan. 17, 2025

Because Boukreev wasn’t breathing supplemental oxygen, he had apparently decided to strip his load down to the bare minimum to gain every possible advantage in the appallingly thin air.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer