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How to use galling in a sentence

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Yes indeed, and clearly that's galling the people who are holding those three Italian hostages, originally four.
For Europe's elites, anti-Americanism is a sterile response to the galling fact that Europe committed semi-suicide in the 20th century.
It is very galling if you go to a water and find half a dozen cormorants there, looking as though they have had a really good feed.
With titanium bolts, the locknuts are plated with rhodium or silver to prevent galling and seizing of the nut to the bolt.
He admits that for the first time in his life he is looking his age, and that he finds this rather galling.
It is very galling that, after staff raised the cash via a tombola and a raffle, someone should just come and take them.
They are but odd shapes painted in zebra stripes which are galling to discerning motorists.
What is particularly galling is that the authors never bothered to contact me or my department head or dean to inquire about this matter.
It is a galling scenario for tribunal lawyers, the Gardai and the council members.
Most galling of all is the ridiculous statements the committee has made in disqualifying the Yes team.
And perhaps most galling, he could rob from the poor box while offering auto-hagiography like.
He keeps fretting himself into a frenzy on a race continuum, sliding between dynamic and charismatic, sinister and galling.
And I also have that bi invisibility thing going on, which is both galling and periodically annoyingly convenient.
For many years he endured galling poverty, which could not be charged to indolence or thriftlessness.
He's hardly a stud, and his superficiality and dismissal of any woman he deems unfit are more galling as a result.
Guilt about being noninclusive is joined to the galling realization that there are not a lot of people interested in being included in the group.
They had been aimlessly shining their torches hither and yon for an hour, when Manny unleashed his galling swan song.
It's particularly galling that German-speakers, not noted for syllabic parsimony, have no problem with it.
The really galling element here is not that mistakes were made, but that their consequences for the taxpayer have been dismissed with such high-handed contempt.
But what is galling is that we are into our fourth week behind bars for what I consider to be some pretty mundane reporting.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This was galling his independent nature, and he determined to avoid it if possible.
But there is no spur so galling as the derisive smile of a comely young woman.
They were attached to the bone, by long galling become an irremovable part of her.
We are made to feel the touch of something galling in the manner of these Median and hyrcanian troopers.
But to stand by all day and be simpered to, and even cringed to, was galling in the extreme.
Strange net-work of classes in a democratic country, of distinctions the more galling for their intangibility.
I have seen you gleeking and galling at this gentleman twice or thrice.
It was galling to feel that he had no confidence in my coolness or my nerve, when neither had ever failed him at a pinch.
One of the most enjoyable things so far about this superlatively well-made series is just how galling this is.
The Indians sprang upon the animals barebacked, and endeavored to urge them off under a galling fire that did some execution.
That galling thought made the blood gush from his gaping wound.
But it was galling to discover that he could not do otherwise.
The galling fire proves too much for them and back they come.
The chain that bound her here was of iron links, and galling to her inmost soul, but could never be broken.
Their hope was to push the galling foes away from the fence.
His immaculate fatigue-uniform, his calm superciliousness, his obvious air of belonging to a superior class, were galling to Trent beyond measure.
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