Example sentences for: disappoints

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

  • Critics debate the merits of Australian director Gillian Armstrong ( My Brilliant Career , Little Women ): Is she "one of the best filmmakers of her time" (Kevin Thomas, the Los Angeles Times ) or a filmmaker with promise who consistently disappoints?

  • It truly disappoints us when a man or a woman in public life fails to meet our standards of morality, literary ethics, or oral hygiene.

  • "Gore disappoints the world" was the headline in Germany's Die Welt, and almost the same headline was used by Spain's El País.

  • OK, the Enquirer 's coverage disappoints, but at least it presents a more believable account of life chez Clinton than the Globe . According to the Enquirer , the president has become increasingly depressed and "has been ravenous for junk food.

  • Indifferent reviews for the second live-action version of a Jay Ward cartoon to star Brendan Fraser (the first being George of the Jungle ). It's a "genial" film with "lots of broad slapstick humor that kids like and adults wince at" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). A few critics are outright irritated--it "disappoints in every way possible," says Kenneth Turan (the Los Angeles Times )--but most are just mildly annoyed.


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