DISILLUSION in a Sentence
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17 example sentences for DISILLUSION, such as:
1. He was beginning to feel somewhat disillusioned.
2. Her interpretation of his words disillusioned him.
3. He's very disillusioned with the present government.
4. If the king had hoped for peace, he was to be sadly disillusioned.
5. He romanticized the past as he became disillusioned with his present.
2. Her interpretation of his words disillusioned him.
3. He's very disillusioned with the present government.
4. If the king had hoped for peace, he was to be sadly disillusioned.
5. He romanticized the past as he became disillusioned with his present.
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Meanings and Examples of DISILLUSION
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disillusion
n. freeing from false belief or illusions
v. free from enchantment
Classic Sentence:
1 He turned his slow, rather full eyes, that had been drowned in such fathomless disillusion, on Connie, and she trembled a little.
2 endlessly old, built up of layers of disillusion, going down in him generation after generation, like geological strata; and at the same time he was forlorn like a child.
3 Levin had not the heart to disillusion him of the notion that there could be something delightful apart from her, and so said nothing.
4 Night witchery and morning disillusion were alike forgotten in the march of realities and days.
5 When I buckled on Sergius's sword he looked so noble: it was treason to think of disillusion or humiliation or failure.
6 But however indubitable that conclusion and the officer's conviction based upon it, Pierre felt it necessary to disillusion him.
7 At half-past three no one had come, and the grocery boy reluctantly got out, cranked his Ford, glared at them in a disillusioned manner, and rattled away.
8 I believed her young, ardent, reckless, disillusioned, under sentence, feverish, avid of pleasure.
9 He was beginning to feel somewhat disillusioned.
10 Her interpretation of his words disillusioned him.
11 Before the evening was half over, Jo felt so completely disillusioned, that she sat down in a corner to recover herself.
12 She saw in him that ancient motionlessness of a race that can't be disillusioned any more, an extreme, perhaps, of impurity that is pure.
13 Upon that the disillusioned suitor would fly out upon the new order of things brought about by the inquiry into illicit fees, and curse both the tchinovniks and their uppish, insolent behaviour.
14 The truth seems to be that a long line of disillusive centuries has permanently displaced the Hellenic idea of life, or whatever it may be called.
Example Sentence:
1 He's very disillusioned with the present government.
2 He romanticized the past as he became disillusioned with his present.
3 If the king had hoped for peace, he was to be sadly disillusioned.