Example sentences for: despair

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

  • It is important not to shrug our shoulders in despair over the current state of our election process but, rather, to actively seek and support real solutions which can revitalize American democracy.

  • Look on his works, ye mighty, and despair!

  • Its real name is despair, that central human emotion in the face of overwhelming odds of which tragedy is made.

  • Rejoicing in France; despair in Ireland.

  • The war in Yugoslavia continued to eclipse all other news across Europe Wednesday, with the Guardian of London leading its front page: "Day 21: more bombs, more death, more despair."


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