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Examples of galling in a Sentence
This is a galling defeat.
her holier-than-thou attitude is galling
Recent Examples on the Web
Most galling, perhaps, is that the Kremlin has been deploying the same drones as Tehran in its assault on Ukrainian cities.
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Daryna Mayer, NBC News, 17 Apr. 2024
The lack of appreciation is particularly galling to stunt workers, who risk their safety to make more famous actors look good.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
But perhaps the comparison should have the opposite effect, urging us toward deeper self-reflection by linking what is most shameful in our past to what is most galling in our present.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
Reports about the vessel have been particularly galling to health care workers on the front lines of Steward's hospitals.
—Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2024
Of course, people with narrow properties could up paying more per year under the flat rate structure than the by-the-foot arrangement, something that is especially galling to Peggy Sue Andre.
—Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
Min, one of the 21 million people who buy natural gas from SoCalGas, adds that the utilities’ efforts to undo clean-air rules on his behalf was particularly galling.
—Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 20 Jan. 2024
By the time Arthur Barratt, commander of the British air forces in France, returned to his headquarters at Compiegne, where the galling armistice would be signed just five weeks later, the German offensive had already begun.
—Sam Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2015
One of the more galling tactics used by pro-Palestinian activists, including many in the mainstream progressive movement, is to claim that Israel is conducting a genocide against the Palestinian people.
—Mike Coté, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
Daryna Mayer, NBC News, 17 Apr. 2024
The lack of appreciation is particularly galling to stunt workers, who risk their safety to make more famous actors look good.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
But perhaps the comparison should have the opposite effect, urging us toward deeper self-reflection by linking what is most shameful in our past to what is most galling in our present.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
Reports about the vessel have been particularly galling to health care workers on the front lines of Steward's hospitals.
—Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2024
Of course, people with narrow properties could up paying more per year under the flat rate structure than the by-the-foot arrangement, something that is especially galling to Peggy Sue Andre.
—Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 15 Feb. 2024
Min, one of the 21 million people who buy natural gas from SoCalGas, adds that the utilities’ efforts to undo clean-air rules on his behalf was particularly galling.
—Andre Mouchard, Orange County Register, 20 Jan. 2024
By the time Arthur Barratt, commander of the British air forces in France, returned to his headquarters at Compiegne, where the galling armistice would be signed just five weeks later, the German offensive had already begun.
—Sam Roberts, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2015
One of the more galling tactics used by pro-Palestinian activists, including many in the mainstream progressive movement, is to claim that Israel is conducting a genocide against the Palestinian people.
—Mike Coté, National Review, 26 Oct. 2023
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“Galling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/galling. Accessed 1 May. 2024.
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