DEJECTED in a Sentence
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78 example sentences for DEJECTED, such as:
1. We went to bed greatly dejected.
2. I am terribly dejected for about a week or two.
3. Munro appeared among his silent troops firm but dejected.
4. The poor fellows looked dejected, and walked off in silence.
5. While the conquered were still, sullen, and dejected, the victors triumphed.
2. I am terribly dejected for about a week or two.
3. Munro appeared among his silent troops firm but dejected.
4. The poor fellows looked dejected, and walked off in silence.
5. While the conquered were still, sullen, and dejected, the victors triumphed.
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Meanings and Examples of DEJECTED
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dejected
a. affected or marked by low spirits
Classic Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
1 As Ahab now glided from the dejected Delight, the strange life-buoy hanging at the Pequod's stern came into conspicuous relief.
2 The countenance of Hawkeye was haggard and careworn, and his air dejected, as though he felt the deepest degradation at having fallen into the power of his enemies.
3 While the conquered were still, sullen, and dejected, the victors triumphed.
4 Munro appeared among his silent troops firm but dejected.
5 "I knew that you would never desert me," she said, looking up with a momentary glow on her otherwise dejected countenance.
6 When the two youths turned with the flag they saw that much of the regiment had crumbled away, and the dejected remnant was coming slowly back.
7 The women involuntarily drew in their breath, and the whole gang sat with downcast, dejected faces.
8 The atheistic taunts of his cruel master sunk his before dejected soul to the lowest ebb; and, though the hand of faith still held to the eternal rock, it was a numb, despairing grasp.
9 The poor fellows looked dejected, and walked off in silence.
10 He was forever busy, and the only check to his enjoyments was my sorrowful and dejected mind.
11 I was quite as dejected on the first working-day of my apprenticeship as in that after-time; but I am glad to know that I never breathed a murmur to Joe while my indentures lasted.
12 I was greatly dejected and distressed, but in an incoherent wholesale sort of way.
13 We went to bed greatly dejected.
14 I was crying all the time, but, except that I was conscious of being cold and dejected, I am sure I never thought why I cried.
15 I am terribly dejected for about a week or two.
Example Sentence:
1 Feeling dejected over having driven 3 hours for nothing I pulled the decoy and started walking up the ridge to leave.