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Example sentences for: despair

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Each weekend morning I would go out to toil anew, and well after dark, lit by headlights of the car, I would realize that pleasure had turned to despair.
Bonnard found himself unable to leave Marthe, his lifelong companion, and Renée killed herself in despair.
More recently, two remarkable works of popular science have convinced me that it is too early to despair.
The despair of the Albanian civilians Milosevic's troops have targeted is everywhere in USAT 's on-the-ground front section "cover story."
The Nationalists, in despair, fell back and finally fled the country, moving the Nationalist government and countless national treasures to the island of Taiwan, pledging to fight their way back one day.