How To Use Abysmal In A Sentence

AN abysmal Arsenal defensive performance but Stoke deserved their win. The Sun
Amelio succeeds in showing the abysmal sadness that results when the longed-for miracle of education doesn't quite live up to its hype.
The research will be carried out in Glasgow, where the handing out of statins is most likely to happen, because of the city's abysmal heart attack record.
The handful of guitar instruction DVDs I have watched range from superlative to abysmal, and nowadays the marketplace is glutted with guitar videos.
My summing up of her abysmal and shameful performance is written below.

As far as events on-field go, you will know that our top-secret plan of attempting to lull the opposition into a false sense of security by performing abysmally in the pool games almost came off.
Even going through it online I learned that, while ‘abysm’ (a lovely word) has fallen out of use in favour of ‘abyss’, we tend to use ‘abysmal’ rather than ‘abyssal’. In praise of a reference book: MWDEU
Further along the river, villages tell the story of neglect and abandonment and a people living in abysmal conditions.
Instead of indulging in something horrendous like book-banning, it should be seen as an opportunity to shore up our level of scholarship as well as articulateness which is pathetically abysmal at present. The Lives of Sri Aurobindo by Peter Heehs, screenplay for a future Spielberg movie!
The first half of the year was just abysmal," said Lenard. "The reality is if the retailer didn't start expanding margins right now, you're not going to see that station open much longer.
They were space traders and smugglers, they had refused an offer to join the Federation halfa century earlier, and their record on humanoid rights was abysmal. The Fearful Summons
Thus, we are trained to swallow impish notions that to cease making one abysmal mistake after the next is "cutting and running" or "giving up" or forefend, "quitting. James Campion: Afghanistan: The Original Quagmire
But it is the Scottish banks which are the real villains of the piece, all huddled together in an abysmal performance right at the bottom of the league table.
Berman's plea also assumes that the entertainment industry must forever be dominated by a small handful of conglomerates, the equitability of whose revenue distribution can charitably be described as abysmal.
A case in example is dry lands in Vidarbha (Maharashtra) where the size of the average holding was 3.3 hectares, but the productivity was abysmally poor due to lack of irrigational facilities. Rahul Gandhi Seeks Flexible Norms to Implement Waiver of Farm Loans
Carlow's league campaign has descended from early promise to an abysmal second half display against Wexford last time out.
He had an abysmal latch and had to have his frenulum clipped but not before my nipples were savaged and bleeding. The Boobityville Horror | Her Bad Mother
Since its launch in January, the ratings have been abysmal and the critical notices worse.
The '86 World Cup was followed by an abysmal display in Euro '88, including defeat to Ireland in the opening match followed by wallopings at the hands of the Soviet Union and Holland.
I was very impressed with this Yorkshire potholing, but my ladder climbing was abysmal and it took me more than half an hour to be dragged up the 91m daylight pitch of Long Kin West.
The surprise then was down to the fact that he had an abysmal record in The Open up to that point. The Sun
Labour's Dan Jarvis, a former paratroop major, won an overwhelming share of the vote but on an abysmal turnout of 36.5% which left the coalition partners with humiliatingly low figures. Humiliated Lib Dems come sixth in Barnsley Central byelection
The best is Britain's abysmal productivity record. Times, Sunday Times
We see less of the countryside, breathe more polluted air and spend a larger proportion of our hours commuting, usually in abysmal conditions. Times, Sunday Times
The general standard of racing was abysmal.
He was brought up to believe in God and he has never felt with poignant sympathy enough the abysmal, immedicable woes of human-kind to have his faith disturbed. Christianity and Progress
Texas's public defence system which provides legal advice for those who can't afford it, is notorious for its abysmal standards.
The "abysmal fecundity" was stirred and life clamoured to be created. The Kempton-Wace Letters
York University had an abysmal five per cent turnout, in part because in the previous year they hadn't had an election.
His journal comments on the comparatively depressed state of the countryside, the untilled fields, ill nourished stock, abysmal roads and poor isolated villages.
Unfortunately, the quality of the titles ranged all the way from mediocre to abysmal.
There was no denying Ballylinan's superiority as they completely overshadowed an abysmal Rock performance.
Secondly, the book is printed on pulp paper of abysmal quality.
abysmal stupidity
And he contemplated her absorbed young face with a thrill of possessorship in which pride in his own masculine initiation was mingled with a tender reverence for her abysmal purity. I. Book I
Having spent three weeks looking at the abysmal track record of the majority of fund managers, and the danger of even slightly mistiming your investments, I really do wonder why anyone bothers trying.
The service I received on buying a new car was abysmal. Times, Sunday Times
He wore a deep green robe and had the same black abysmal eyes as Mrs. Flockhart.
Happily, their plugs are configured differently or I would have fried my laptop in my abysmal ignorance.
And he's so far not lived up to any single commitment that he's made, which is a pretty abysmal record.
After such an abysmal summer it hardly seemed that the weather could get much worse, but the weekend was yet another great washout. Times, Sunday Times
Another large chunk appear fine until I start to read them: the spelling is abysmal, the punctuation non-existent, and the syntax is convoluted. Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2008 » June
There will be public protests against the kingdom's abysmal human rights record. Times, Sunday Times
But practising with the pressure of a packed stadium could improve their abysmal record. The Sun
Yet, even though official statistics reveal this abysmal state of affairs, what is the Government's response?
abysmal misery
The show was initially ridiculed by many reviewers as the most abysmally lowbrow series in television history.
The so called "leftish" Ken Clarke started the ball rolling with the idiotic GP Fundholding saga of the late 80s early 90s - it failed abysmally, but Clarke did a lot of damage to the The Guardian World News
You're doing a abysmally inadequate job on both fronts, I'm afraid.
The quality of the competition apart, what let things down was the abysmal and partisan television coverage.
The decline is clearly not confined to abysmal on-field performances. Times, Sunday Times
Oil is generating plenty of income, while productivity is often abysmal and the quality of local products repellent.
His summation of the problem with computer security is, as he himself admits, quite cynical: ‘… the mathematics are impeccable, the computers are vincible, the networks are lousy, and the people are abysmal.’
The weather conditions were quite abysmal with the piercing cold and rain testing the stamina and endurance of all players and panel members.
After such an abysmal summer it hardly seemed that the weather could get much worse, but the weekend was yet another great washout. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, this has nothing to do with the absolute lack of any proper ticket inspection on the network, nor the abysmal and ancient ticket machines still conking out all over the shop.
We saw the Picts sink into abysmal savagery, the Atlanteans into apedom again. Wings in the Night
I am sure the Chargers are satisfied with their big offseason decisions, though let's recap: pussyfooted on the notion of whether to can Schottenheimer or not, watched Cam Cameron and Wade Phillips pick up head coaching gigs, then canned Marty Schottenheimer, and then hiring Norv Turner who has lost everywhere he has coached (including an abysmal tenure with the Redskins). Pack is Back
It is an evocative, emotionally charged story of a young life steeped in paradox; of a middle-class Parsi girl attending Catholic school in a predominantly Hindu city; of a guilt-ridden stranger in her own land, an affluent child in a country mired in abysmal poverty. First Darling of the Morning by Thrity Umrigar: Book summary
Dionysian consciousness is essentially bisexual, and for Nietzsche it was precisely the lunar aspect of this consciousness, the abysmal depths of the feminine, that was both appealing and frightful.
Not suddenly doth the sweet warmth of universal life, from brumal caves advancing, interfuse the vast abysmal air, or penetrate the deep heart of the frost-entranced Earth. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
The down side is excess weight, poor performance and abysmal gas mileage.
This at least saves me trying to comprehend how anybody could write such abysmal dialogue, characters, and plot scenarios.
And once again, will GOP'ers give her 'Pity Protection' because all the big bad politicians keep calling her abysmal political record out? felicia Obama & Biden to jump into '09 races
Certainly the abysmal suffering and despair in many poor countries should cause us sickening guilt.
Service in the restaurant was abysmally slow. My husband was starting to flip out, so I tried to distract him with small talk.
Wages and backstage conditions were abysmal, ticket prices kept as low as could be. The Times Literary Supplement
He yawned widely; from the depths of the abysmal abyss stretching beyond his throat emerged his tongue.
But he is certainly not buying himself any at the moment with abysmal performances like this. The Sun
It’s Robert Altman in polyester and gold chains, only with a groan-inducing script and acting that ranges from decent to abysmal. Weekly Mishmash: August 17-23 : Scrubbles.net
Since the demise of the Catch Me Com buses the No 4 Highercroft route has degenerated from poor to absolutely abysmal.
On close inspection this area of technology has an abysmal record of technological advancement.
I did my little pep talk, the game finished 0-0 and it was abysmal. Times, Sunday Times
I don't know, but I am sure that anonymity plays its part when these abysmal and frighteningly stupid people decide to view this stuff.
Again, the results were abysmal - until he tested a popular formulation for staying awake that contains caffeine.
True, the progress so far is minuscule compared with the problems created by decades of capital flight, abysmal schools, and drug abuse.
As You Like It is Shakespeare at his most lighthearted - his romcom phase, if you will - full of cross-dressing, pratfalls and playfully abysmal puns.
There will be public protests against the kingdom's abysmal human rights record. Times, Sunday Times
Groceteria, insular, monomaniacal, abysmally and shaddock took out five spellers in round eight; simultaneity, lapidarian, braillist and pertussis ended the contest for another four in round nine. Azcentral.com | news
His offer to give up 60 per cent of his bonus last month was just a publicity stunt to divert passenger fury at his abysmal record. Times, Sunday Times
‘I think it's abysmal, and you can quote me on that,’ Roberts said.
The service I received on buying a new car was abysmal. Times, Sunday Times
His inability to accept his responsibility, and worse still to blame it on civil servants, is a completely unconvincing attempt to cover up abysmal failure. Times, Sunday Times
Instead of the abysmal prisoner food he was given meals that, although hardly lavish, were at least nourishing and sound. THE LONGEST WAY HOME
I've recently been doing best practice reviews for how publishers are using playable, downloadable and subscribable media and the verdict is that even the best of the efforts by traditional publishers is abysmal compared to the best of the pure play new media companies. What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web - Publishing 2.0
While the main crux of the discussion was about the abysmal treatment received, mention was made of computers, and that they are subject to search and seizure, as are jump drives, external harddrives, and all other electronic data storage devices, and they need virtually zero reason or cause to do it. Lonely
After an abysmal performance against Norwich City last month he wondered aloud about whether his squad were good enough. Times, Sunday Times
It is abysmal that a gossip writer should use spiky chit-chat from anonymous donors to make money and notoriety for herself.
The level of name-dropping is usually abysmal.
Will computers close the final gap, and find in their own depths, abysmal or otherwise, an instinctual feel for the wrong move at the right time?
But many schools serving the poor are of such abysmal quality that many children drop out of school in frustration.
Most of the world's populations live in abysmal poverty, our governments are corrupt, and we lead meaningless lives of banality.
Elsewhere though, old-style passbook accounts from bank and building-society branches are now paying abysmally low returns.
Groceteria, insular, monomaniacal, abysmally and shaddock took out five spellers in round eight; simultaneity, lapidarian, braillist and pertussis ended the contest for another four in round nine. Azcentral.com | news
The standard of education was abysmally low.
Sununu's abysmal numbers suggest that 2006 was not a fluke, but potentially a long-term realignment in the state. Election Central | Talking Points Memo | Two New Polls Show Sununu Extremely Vulnerable In New Hampshire
The wider one's sampling of a genre, the more abysmally awful stuff one encounters.
To see moral grandeur rising out of cesspools of iniquity; to rise himself and first glimpse beauty, faint and far, through mud - dripping eyes; to see out of weakness, and frailty, and viciousness, and all abysmal brutishness, arising strength, and truth, and high spiritual endowment — Chapter 14
It is true that America's tax system is an abysmal and Byzantine mess.
Sadly, it was an abysmal offer, some £25,000 below the asking price!
And one reason it's not been achieved is the abysmal lack of planning for an aftermath which was violent.
The totality of the minute, simple world of the humans, microscopic and negligible as it was in the siderial universe, was as far beyond his guessing as is the siderial universe beyond the starriest guesses and most abysmal imaginings of man. CHAPTER XXIV
Surely, even by the abysmal standards of these people, we can survive without this organised slaughter?
It takes some hiding from facts to regard yourself as a successful rugby nation with such an abysmal record. Times, Sunday Times
For all the insensitivity of this mistake, it represents the abysmal lack of knowledge about the Baltics in the minds of many a Westerner.
Our society has almost sunk into abysmal moral degeneration and deterioration.
Any cursory examination of schools would reveal that the attendance on Carnival week is abysmally low.
I did my little pep talk, the game finished 0-0 and it was abysmal. Times, Sunday Times
True, the progress so far is minuscule compared with the problems created by decades of capital flight, abysmal schools, and drug abuse.
And he contemplated her absorbed young face with a thrill of possessorship in which pride in his own masculine initiation was mingled with a tender reverence for her abysmal purity. The Age of Innocence
But practising with the pressure of a packed stadium could improve their abysmal record. The Sun
Even going through it online I learned that, while ‘abysm’ (a lovely word) has fallen out of use in favour of ‘abyss’, we tend to use ‘abysmal’ rather than ‘abyssal’. In praise of a reference book: MWDEU
The aim of the MP who imposed the postal vote upon Yorkshire, was to increase the abysmal turnout from previous elections.
For me the abysmal treatment of chickens in factory farming is a far bigger issue. Times, Sunday Times
If "Fast Five" had been rated by the EPA instead of the MPAA—the Motion Picture Association of America gave it a PG, notwithstanding rampant road rage—the average MPG would have been abysmal, what with vroom-vrooming muscle cars, screeching exotics and an armor-plated monster that makes the Hummer look demure. 'Five': A Series Wakes Up at the Wheel
Ciesielski adds that Schipper, who seems to be miffed by the auditors' abysmal oversight, then asked if the auditors should have caught the misdating anyway in their audits of footnote disclosures option footnotes have been a fixture of financials since 1996, as the footnotes could have uncovered contracts with incorrect dates. Where Were The Auditors?
But maybe that phone number screw-up is just so abysmal that it's got to be graded a failure.
The general standard of racing was abysmal.
His academic record was abysmal. Times, Sunday Times
I drive around today, gently despairing at some of the abysmal shapes that litter the roads.
I've often wondered how they could get away with some of the cooking programmes that are on TV, considering how abysmal the hygiene shown is.
That is the one discreditable aspect of this election: the abysmal security situation.
Then again, the use of the word if 'flop' is relative, I use it to label movies that performed abysmal. Has the Downfall of Mike Myers Truly Begun? « FirstShowing.net
He also fleetingly mentioned the abysmal state of public transport across the country.
In this budget, the government continues its abysmal record on assisting the world's poorest people.
If an abysmal new series sneaks on to the schedules without provoking an outburst from us, it can trundle through its six-week schedule unscathed.
Yet, even though official statistics reveal this abysmal state of affairs, what is the Government's response?
The standard of the students' work is abysmal.
The common factor is the abysmal quality of detective work. Times, Sunday Times
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With this contemplation, there is bound up an exercise which is wayless, that is to say, a noughting of life; for, where we go forth out of ourselves into darkness and the abysmal Waylessness, there shines perpetually the simple ray of the Splendour of God, in which we are grounded, and which draws us out of ourselves into the superessence, and into the immersion of love. The Adornment of the Spritual Marriage
Of course, among the unnecessaries to him are the use of union labor and producing goods in America, and Scott is unabashed about pointing in the direction of China or other places for abysmally low production costs.
Our society has almost sunk into abysmal moral degeneration and deterioration.
It might commove Europe and bespatter it with blood, but that would not hinder it from plunging itself into nothingness in the abysmal ooze of definite dissolution. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
As the chart shows, it has failed abysmally.
Cancellation of the project would therefore be such a massive betrayal that resignations of senior naval officers would surely be inevitable - what an abysmal start that would be for a new government. crowbait Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
Despite throwing his hat in the ring for almost every job in the next three years, the best he could get was a brief, abysmal spell at Bradford City.
If by "scolded" you mean pointed out that TimesSelect was an abysmal failure that the New York Times ultimately had to jettison, then I guess so. Jane Hamsher: Online News is Not Arianna Huffington's Dastardly Plot to Destroy the Newspaper Industry And Other Reality-Based Observations
The common factor is the abysmal quality of detective work. Times, Sunday Times
The film was so abysmal that I fell asleep.
Our society has almost sunk into abysmal moral degeneration and deterioration.
Not suddenly doth the sweet warmth of universal life, from brumal caves advancing, interfuse the vast abysmal air, or penetrate the deep heart of the frost-entranced Earth. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
But by July of 1992, those approval ratings had slid to an abysmal 25 percent, presaging his electoral defeat three months later.
With, yes you guessed it, abysmal results. The Sun
It should come as no surprise to you then, dear reader, that among ochlophobic disdains few rank higher than the ochlophobism felt with regard to that most abysmal of wintertime mechanical monstrosities - the snowmobile. The Ochlophobist
They must not have hired him for his political foresight, either, because his crystal ball record is abysmal.
These abysmal results are not due to lack of trying. Times, Sunday Times
The abysmal hypocrisy and failure of the organic movement should be a warning to all environmentalists. Times, Sunday Times
Why McKenna's mentioned Alex Salmond in an abysmal piece about some media fodder Rangers footballer and why he believes Salmond will talk about it in an arrogant, boasting or blustering way in parliament is beyond me. Think Diouf is vile? Listen to the fans | Kevin McKenna
Even if you set aside the short-lived but massive price bubble back in 1980 — around the time of a similar bubble in gold and many other commodities — the results have still been abysmal. Diamonds Aren't an Investor's Best Friend
You licked Cheese-Face because you wouldn't give in, and you wouldn't give in partly because you were an abysmal brute and for the rest because you believed what every one about you believed, that the measure of manhood was the carnivorous ferocity displayed in injuring and marring fellow-creatures 'anatomies. Chapter 29
The service I received on buying a new car was abysmal. Times, Sunday Times
If the legionnaires don't have the good eats, then how can they perform anything but abysmally for their lictors?

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