Example Sentences

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While Zora and Henry get the chance to debate the merits of their work along the way, Koepp’s screenplay gallingly diverts attention to a far less charming parallel storyline just when things are getting good.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 2025

We don’t need to be personally acquainted with anyone in Ukraine, of course, to find the war abhorrent and its casualties gallingly tragic.

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2022

As recently as five or six years ago, those words together still conjured an off-putting image for many men—of over-designed, gallingly expensive footwear, littered with logos in a way that evoked a duty free shop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2015

Mr. Galantich delivers Mr. Sanford’s gallingly earnest explanations of his dalliance with an Argentine woman with just the right tincture of glib self-importance.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2014

Fine as martial music he was, yet gallingly out of her rhythm, above her key.

From Kincaid's Battery by Kimball, Alonzo