Sentence Examples

1. The swarm left the Guraah and flew straight at them, buzzing with appalling excitement.
2. Horrors of a nature most stern and most appalling would too frequently obtrude themselves upon my mind, and shake the innermost depths of my soul with the bare supposition of their possibility.
3. The greater part of them were in a state of evident eruption, and gave me fearfully to understand their fury and their power, by the repeated thunders of the miscalled meteoric stones, which now rushed upward by the balloon with a frequency more and more appalling.
4. No criminal in his right mind, whether killer or companion, would turn himself in after such an appalling crime.
5. Evan and Jed soon discovered they were appalling chefs however and Sniglog told them so.
6. However, the change to their faces was the most appalling.
7. From that period the ship, being thrown dead off the wind, has continued her terrific course due south, with every rag of canvas packed upon her, from her trucks to her lower studding-sail booms, and rolling every moment her top-gallant yard-arms into the most appalling hell of water which it can enter into the mind of a man to imagine.
8. He was paralysed with appalling horror and unbearable grief.
9. Only the eyes and a thin gash of a mouth marked the appalling face.
10. My companion spoke of the lightness of our cargo, and reminded me of the excellent qualities of our ship but I could not help feeling the utter hopelessness of hope itself, and prepared myself gloomily for that death which I thought nothing could defer beyond an hour, as, with every knot of way the ship made, the swelling of the black stupendous seas became more dismally appalling.