DESPONDENT in a Sentence
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57 example sentences for DESPONDENT, such as:
1. All I see has made me thankful, not despondent.
2. There are times when it is hard not to feel despondent.
3. He was despondent and sullen, and threw shifting glances about him.
4. Others spoke of tattered and eternally hungry men who fired despondent powders.
5. He became/grew increasingly despondent when she failed to return his phone calls.
2. There are times when it is hard not to feel despondent.
3. He was despondent and sullen, and threw shifting glances about him.
4. Others spoke of tattered and eternally hungry men who fired despondent powders.
5. He became/grew increasingly despondent when she failed to return his phone calls.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of DESPONDENT
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despondent
a. without or almost without hope
Classic Sentence: (53 in 4 pages)
1 She hid her eyes with a shudder, beholding herself at the entrance of that ever-narrowing perspective down which she had seen Miss Silverton's dowdy figure take its despondent way.
2 The despondent frame of mind in which she had left home began again to overtake her, and she remembered that she wished to find Mademoiselle Reisz.
3 Edna had intended to be indifferent and as reserved as he when she met him; she had reached the determination by a laborious train of reasoning, incident to one of her despondent moods.
4 Others spoke of tattered and eternally hungry men who fired despondent powders.
5 He was despondent and sullen, and threw shifting glances about him.
6 The procession of weary soldiers became a bedraggled train, despondent and muttering, marching with churning effort in a trough of liquid brown mud under a low, wretched sky.
7 Be patient, Jo, don't get despondent or do rash things, write to me often, and be my brave girl, ready to help and cheer all.
8 "Never," she answered, with a despondent but decided air.
9 "I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me," began Laurie, leaning his head on his hand in a despondent attitude.
10 Your habitual expression in those days, Jane, was a thoughtful look; not despondent, for you were not sickly; but not buoyant, for you had little hope, and no actual pleasure.
11 All I see has made me thankful, not despondent.
12 Memory brought madness with it, and when I thought of what had passed, a real insanity possessed me; sometimes I was furious and burnt with rage, sometimes low and despondent.
13 He expressed great alarm at his pastor's state of health, but was anxious to attempt the cure, and, if early undertaken, seemed not despondent of a favourable result.
14 It's very strange,' said Mr. Dick, with a despondent look upon his papers, and with his hand among his hair again, 'that I never can get that quite right.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 14. MY AUNT MAKES UP HER MIND ABOUT ME
15 Alexey Alexandrovitch sat down, and with a despondent and suffering face watched the nurse walking to and fro.
Example Sentence:
1 There are times when it is hard not to feel despondent.
2 He became/grew increasingly despondent when she failed to return his phone calls.
3 To the dismay of his parents, William became seriously despondent after he broke up with Jan; they despaired of finding a cure for his gloom.
4 Long despondent, there are signs, however, that there is a rising confidence within Labour's ranks, on the back of a few poor days campaigning for the Conservatives.