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Example sentences for: despair

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

After a crash, the crowd's silence feeds an athlete's paranoia, depression, and despair.
They reach out to each other like a couple lost in the wilderness, one upright and confident, the other one slouched down in despair.
His private pictures from the time include some classics, but they are classics of despair.
Take Infinite Jest author David Foster Wallace, who has called irony the source of "a great despair and stasis in U.S. culture."
"Arundhati Roy's victory left me close to despair," said David Robson in the Sunday Telegraph . "If this is the novel of the year, then the novel is dead."