Example sentences for: chagrin

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

  • Sometimes the focus on the presenter pays off, as when we see the six-foot scientist looking like a small child beside Chris Greener, the tallest man in Britain, or witness Leroi's faint chagrin at discovering that his DNA is mostly European, despite his cosmopolitan family history.

  • To my chagrin, all the TV anchors came on the air pronouncing it YER-in-us, making it sound as though it were part of a procedure designed to produce a specimen in a bottle.

  • c) Trumpeted Clinton's denial but has not expressed chagrin now that Clinton has admitted his lies.

  • But much to the companies' chagrin, New York and Massachusetts have adopted requirements similar to California's and their fear is that other states will follow suit.

  • 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.


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