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Examples of galling in a Sentence
This is a galling defeat.
her holier-than-thou attitude is galling
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YouGov’s latest polling, from June, put support for Conservatives at a galling 18% while Farage’s Reform garnered 17%.
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Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
Criticism of those democratic leaders is all the more galling when compared with how little attention Biden officials pay to dissidents in authoritarian states.
—Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
Equally galling is that new protective guidelines weren’t followed in Marcello’s case.
—Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 20 Feb. 2024
The first and most galling is the resurfacing of Chris Lowell, one of the jurors who acquitted Durst in the Galveston murder trial and then quickly befriended him.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024
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Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2 July 2024
Criticism of those democratic leaders is all the more galling when compared with how little attention Biden officials pay to dissidents in authoritarian states.
—Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
Equally galling is that new protective guidelines weren’t followed in Marcello’s case.
—Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 20 Feb. 2024
The first and most galling is the resurfacing of Chris Lowell, one of the jurors who acquitted Durst in the Galveston murder trial and then quickly befriended him.
—Scott Tobias, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2024
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“Galling.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/galling. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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