Example sentences for: chagrin

How can you use “chagrin” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Much to the chagrin of those that study it, the brain remains perhaps too mysterious.

  • Niagara Falls, Ontario, has, to the chagrin of many American tour operators, the best grandstand view of one of the Western World’s great natural wonders.

  • It's that sort of chagrin that's behind the rumblings of a House coup all the papers report.

  • As you can see on one of the daily guided tours through Olympic Park, the result is as grandiose in design as it has been ruinous in cost, to the continuing chagrin of local taxpayers with long memories and short bank balances.

  • In 1565 she married her young cousin Henry, Lord Darnley, much to the chagrin of Elizabeth (Darnley was a grandson of Margaret Tudor and thus also had a claim to the English throne).


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