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Example sentences for "appall"

Lexicographically close words:
apotheosis; apotheosized; apout; apoynted; appal; appalled; appalling; appallingly; appals; appanage
  1. Sure this message of the Princes, So grievous and unlookt for, will appall Petronius much.

  2. This," he exclaimed, with wild gestures, "is enough to appall me!

  3. He was unable to work, he slept little, he had no appetite for food; for the most part, he could only walk up and down this wonderful and terrible city of London which had now begun to appall him.

  4. There followed heartrending screams and cries, enough to appall the soul of man.

  5. Lady Macbeth is not a woman to start at shadows; she mocks at air-drawn daggers; she sees no imagined spectres rise from the tomb to appall or accuse her.

  6. Ay, and a bold one, that dare look on that Which might appall the devil.

  7. The body, as a body, was of such a nature that he found it necessary to appall them.

  8. This Actio Prima contains the words in which he did appall the judges.

  9. And he would so appall these corrupt judges that they should not dare to acquit the accused.

  10. The mystery that hangs over the departure of any craft that goes by wind is calculated to appall the landsman; and when the date of sailing is fixed the best thing he can do is to go aboard in season and compose his soul in peace.

  11. Like another avatar of Death gendered by Pride in the womb of Sin, it burst forth to appall the world.

  12. Furious as a demon disturbed at some hellish rite, he turned and shrieked to the mocking voice and bade it come to him that he might wreak upon its owner such vengeance as would appall the world.

  13. Proud and vainglorious, swelled with lofty anticipations of his destiny, and an invincible confidence in his own resources, no danger could appall and no toil could tire him.

  14. It would appall thee, my Right Worshipful lord Abrazza!

  15. To live at all, is a high vocation; to live forever, and run parallel with Oro, may truly appall us.

  16. They see the president of the bank sitting in his private office and imagine that he is idle, not realizing that his mind is busy with problems of great magnitude, problems that would appall his subordinates.

  17. Its multitudinous rules and systems of discipline appall the spirit and weary the flesh even to enumerate them; so that, from one point of view, the making of new sects is a necessity.

  18. To attempt a just and impartial survey of the religions of Japan may seem a task that might well appall even a life-long Oriental scholar.

  19. The sight of the glaring eyes and the blood-red fangs was enough to appall the stoutest heart.

  20. The scene before them was enough to appall the stoutest heart.

  21. A month at Nassau, in the undiluted company of Nina and her grandmother, was enough to appall even Harriet's stout heart.

  22. From the reception line, on the lawn, came such a brainless confusion of jabbering and chattering as might well appall the old and nervous.

  23. Instead of serving to affright and appall the dwellers upon the continents which it surrounds, it renders their atmosphere more respirable, it affords them safe conveyance, and raises for them a school of heroes.

  24. The aspect of this formidable and tempest-lashed coast might well appall an amateur navigator accustomed to the luxurious indolence of a Persian court.

  25. Though so near the solid land, towards which every eye looked and every heart panted, still the surging billows and receding undertow around the bow of the ship, were sufficient to appall the most courageous mind.

  26. The colossal proportions reared themselves at least seven feet high, and being bulky in proportion the man presented a formidable aspect, such as would at sight appall a common foe.

  27. Iris, under a becoming air of inaccessibility which could rather appall one, hid an ability to love utterly--such as would quite have shocked those who inveighed against her coldness!

  28. You imagined to yourself fine arrogances behind those young eyes, to attract and appall you in a venturesome moment.

  29. The science and order that are abroad appall me.

  30. It was a position to appall the stoutest heart.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "appall" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abash; appall; astound; awe; confound; cow; daunt; discomfit; disconcert; disgust; dismay; faze; freeze; frighten; horrify; offend; paralyze; petrify; repel; revolt; shake; shock; sicken; stun; stupefy