Example sentences for: disappointing

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

  • One reason for this disappointing stoicism may be that for the middle class the tax burden isn't in fact rising.

  • As evidence of investor hysteria, the financial media often point to things like the $40 billion market-cap hit that IBM took at the end of last week, after it announced that it would have two, and perhaps three, disappointing quarters in a row because its customers were cutting back on spending in order to take care of potential Y2K problems.

  • But she's astonishingly vivid in her new film, In Dreams . It's a poetic but ultimately disappointing stab at expressionistic horror, courtesy of Neil Jordan ( The Crying Game , 1992).

  • If you open Galaxy Quest on Friday and it turns in numbers that are disappointing relative to the opening weekends of other comparable films, then you end up looking like a loser, even though you could quite sensibly argue that this particular Friday through Sunday is not like every other Friday through Sunday.

  • You’ll find a full range of sports offered: from tennis, windsurfing, and waterskiing to snorkeling and diving — however it is fair to say that the underwater world so close to the capital can be disappointing.


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