7 sentences with 'appalling'
Example sentences and phrases with the word appalling and other words derived from it.
• « Rome achieved remarkable things, but it did so through appalling cruelty and staggering levels of violence. »
• « The conduct of rapacious soldiers had been so appalling in the wars, especially in the Holy Roman Empire, that many states undertook the long and difficult process of creating standing professional armies to report to noble officers, rather than simply hiring mercenaries and letting them run amok. »
• « The conduct of the soldiers was so appalling that many European elites came to believe that better regulated and directed armies were essential to prevent future chaos. »
• « The vast majority of slaves were instead sent to the Caribbean or Brazil, areas where working conditions were far worse than the (still appalling) working conditions present in North America. »
• « 600,000 men died in the war, most of them from disease thanks to the appalling conditions at the front. »
• « Conditions in the ghettos were appalling: the official food ration 'paid' to Jewish labourers slaving for the Nazi war effort consisted of about 600 - 800 calories a day (an adult should consume about 2,000 a day to stay healthy). Potato peels were "as valuable as diamonds" to the ghetto inhabitants. »
• « As we chatted, I found it appalling that people worried about such trivial matters as buying groceries or putting gas in their cars while I couldn't stop thinking about the fact that my beloved Gretchen was no longer alive. »