The hospital involved has admitted it was an appalling mistake to make.

Hard-liners in the Bush administration killed discussions of a deal, and interviews with key players suggest that was an appalling mistake.

To make such an appalling mistake!

"An appalling mistake," objected Chan.

A young thief (Jérémie Renier) makes a spectacular, appalling mistake, and his reaction to its aftermath leads him, improbably but always believably, toward grace.

If ever I needed proof that my feud with Borden was an appalling mistake, at last I had it.

Look, honestly, I don't think I'll make any utterly appalling mistakes.

It was an appalling mistake for the city to be attacked in the first place.

According to Kristof, this was an "appalling mistake" since "the Iranian proposal was promising and certainly should have been followed up.

Rathbone heard his words drop into a well of silence, and wondered if he had just made an appalling mistake.