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Example sentences for: despairs

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

These days one despairs of the teachers, for they, too, seem totally oblivious to style and traditional practice.
There is such a wealth of material buried in its thousands of articles that remains inaccessible for lack of an Index that one despairs of the judgment of the publishers.
He despairs of his father the failed lawyer, the gunner who can't hit a bird that doesn't bother with flight, the pajama-clad alcoholic who squelches his cigarettes in his own excrement.