Example sentences for: disappointingly

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

  • This exception, incidentally, could explain why programs like Head Start are disappointingly ineffective: When little Johnny is accepted into the Head Start program, his parents compensate Johnny's brothers and sisters by spending more time with them and less with Johnny.

  • Cameramen and reporters buttonhole members as they begin trickling out around 10, and it is immediately and disappointingly obvious that the president said nothing about Topic A, and his Democratic allies didn't ask him about it.

  • So there was indeed a greater proportion of new entries (10%) than in the span noted first, but still a disappointingly small minority of the whole.

  • The priest is named Thomas Aquinas--not, disappointingly, the reincarnated author of Summa Theologica but some old geezer who has cut out his own tongue and put it in a mayonnaise jar for reasons that it would take a second viewing of End of Days for me to figure out.

  • The invitation came, rather disappointingly, by conventional mail.


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