Example sentences for: disappointment

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

  • As for your bet that the actual Talk interview will prove a disappointment, it seems so self-evident that I will resist the offer of a free Talk subscription.

  • Meanwhile, Asahi Shimbun of Tokyo expressed disappointment at Japan's failure to play a significant role in international diplomacy.

  • Inside, a critic brands the film "a big disappointment."

  • There have been ups (like the time when we had a mailing service that kept adding new and renewing subscribers' names and addresses without removing the old ones, leading us not only into a state of euphoria contemplating our 20,000 paid subscribers but, at the same time, into near bankruptcy paying the attendent increased printing and postage costs without the expected revenues); and, of course, there have been downs (like falling behind so far in the publishing schedule that we changed the dates of the issues from May, September, December, March to Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring (as in Of Thee I Sing! ), and the dismay and disappointment at the down-marketing of The New Yorker , once a stalwart—if expensive—source of new subscribers, now—still expensive—catering to the pretentious philistine market).

  • The economic history of Brazil is one of punctured enthusiasms--of brief episodes of hope followed by bitter disappointment.


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