appallingly
Example Sentences
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Appallingly, the entire system, including law enforcement, failed miserably to instill basic checks and balances and, worse, was blind to the red flags.
From Washington Post • Sep. 20, 2021
Appallingly, some of the bases the office says the Pentagon should unload stopped being useful to the military in the 1960s.
From Time • Mar. 17, 2016
Appallingly, Exxon workers were warned of the possibility of a rupture but did not act.
From Time Magazine Archive
Appallingly complex, these techniques often needed a series of operations spread over a period of years.
From Time Magazine Archive
Appallingly, abruptly, came a shattering crash, a streak of blinding fire, an unendurable noise, a searing blast of blaze as if the sun had been dynamite exploded, splintering the very joists of heaven.
From In a Little Town by Hughes, Rupert
