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How to use galled in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word galled? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
It galled him that soldiers had driven so hard to penetrate the city, only to have a buffoon in a beret belittle them to the world.
But I'm most galled by the inaccuracy of how the study's results are misleadingly characterized.
Dutt actually looks plausible as the weather-beaten old literary lion, galled by his own unfashionability.
It galled him to do this, but he put on his best courtly air and bowed to his queen.
The Europeans were galled by this poor sportsmanship.
The colleagues whose bacchanalian habits and social position had made them so attractive began to prove irksome, and their insistence on their superior experience and status galled Pepys's pride.
That must have galled Lehman, who is twenty years younger than Hitchcock.
Examples from Classical Literature
It galled him to take the woman's wages, but it vexed him yet more to do her work.
He had to live on her money, which galled him, and to be assisted by the Dean's money, which was wormwood to him.
This galled him severely, especially as she had refused to see him when he called.
Had they been real chains they could have galled him no more than at this moment.
It galled me when I thought how sportsman-like I had been to attract their attention.
It belongs to a romantic age where excess was atoned for by asceticism, and spasms of vice galled the kibe of negative virtue.
The fly that will fall on none but the galled, ulcerous place, doth feed accordingly.
For amaranth, the cotton is strongly galled, dried, and washed.
I thought that he was galled to feel that he had been beaten by a novice.
It grieves me much that when I came to soothe I have only galled thee.
The most comradely of men, nothing galled him like having to be sociable.
She had never been in Europe, and it galled her to be out of the fashion.
The men immediately hastened to collect a quantity of it, to use as an ointment for the galled backs of their horses, and as a balsam for their own pains and aches.
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