How to Use revolting in a Sentence

revolting

adjective
  • The bloody scenes in the movie were positively revolting.
  • For him, the most revolting thing about his life in Iran was its pervasive stink.
    — Amir Ahmadi Arian, The Dial, 15 Jan. 2026
  • Iran’s risen and revolting cities are joining the protests, one after the other.
    — Ben Evansky, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2018
  • Where there is one cockroach, there are many more - probably their revolting egg sacs, too.
    — Leila Atassi, cleveland.com, 23 Feb. 2018
  • And the revolting kids’ ferocity has just the right measure of toughness and charm.
    — Nelson Pressley, Washington Post, 1 July 2019
  • Choosing the name of our Lord for a brand of soft-serve ice cream is totally offensive and revolting.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, kansascity, 26 Mar. 2018
  • But one of the most revolting things about the pardon was captured in Breitbart’s taunting tweet.
    — Michelle Goldberg, Slate Magazine, 26 Aug. 2017
  • This is what makes the deification of the CEO class so revolting.
    — David Dayen, New Republic, 22 Aug. 2017
  • This revolting behavior is not limited to the media.
    — Brooke L. Rollins, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • The many physically revolting and morally repellent acts that ensue amount to little but a gross-out joke.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2025
  • This revolting state of affairs is in part the consequence of a rolling economic crisis and recession.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 May 2017
  • Babies and toddlers will put just about anything in their mouths, including objects that adults find profoundly revolting.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • The first three episodes are tonally uneven and include one of the most revolting scenes television has produced in living memory.
    — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2017
  • Facebook users already have a history of revolting when things don’t go their way, which leads us to predict the new ads will enjoy all the success of a lead balloon.
    — Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 23 Aug. 2007
  • In this telling of events, the American people didn’t fall in love with the revolting Red Delicious.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
  • But Almost Family doesn’t really want to deal with female anger, or the revolting nature of its own premise.
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 30 Sep. 2019
  • Sure enough, Spencer’s intestines were soon spilling out in the street, giving us one last revolting vision to remember during the holiday break.
    — Jeremy Egner, New York Times, 12 Dec. 2016
  • But what is a little revolting rhetoric between old pals, especially given the specter of a 20 percent corporate tax rate?
    — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 2 Dec. 2017
  • Some of the initial reactions to the president*’s diatribe were predictably revolting.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 12 Jan. 2018
  • The admissions from a Starbucks employee were apparently too revolting not to share.
    — Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Early reports were sketchy at best; the media filler was as fundamentally revolting as has become customary when crimes like this hit affluent white suburbs.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 14 June 2017
  • Toilet seat and handles, and bathroom faucet handles and doorknobs, all had lower counts of bacteria and mold than kitchen sinks, countertops, stove knobs, coffee reservoirs and, most revolting of all, dish sponges.
    — Nick Haslam, Time, 12 Apr. 2018
  • But nevertheless our spirit will endure, beyond political seasons, and despite whatever revolting attacks may yet be to come.
    — Dan Stewart / London, Time, 4 June 2017
  • That worms like nematodes are, to human sensibilities, revolting creatures with revolting lives is surely the result of millions of years of co-evolution that has favoured avoiding any contact with them.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • The revolting legacy of the pedophile trafficker Jeffrey Epstein continues to unmask the obstacles to finding truth.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
  • The production headed to the Maltz Performing Arts Center isn't some revolting conceptual train-wreck.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland.com, 23 Oct. 2017
  • But students will see through this weak defense, noting the exorbitant expenditure of public money to fund a program that is both socially revolting and scientifically ineffectual.
    — Author: Sean McGuire, Alaska Dispatch News, 14 Sep. 2017
  • The history of the portrayal of lesbians and gay men in mainstream cinema is politically indefensible and aesthetically revolting.
    — New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • In a variation of that revolting ritual in which young parents assume other people's reproductive choices are their business, curious women assail Jen at a party, amplifying her unease.
    — John Defore, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Oct. 2019
  • These virtues, however, appear physically and psychologically revolting to Trump.
    — Emily Jane Fox, The Hive, 21 Feb. 2017

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