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Example sentences for: disheartening

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Bedraggled, starving and exhausted after a final four days crushed in box cars, we were, I learned later, the most disheartening lot of ragmen they had seen in their more than three years of imprisonment.
It is certainly disheartening, but I have hope--which brings me to the Internet, which I am thrilled to talk about all day and night.
The thing I find most disheartening about Rosen's book is probably best summed up by an oft-used Shakespeare line: "He jests at scars that never felt a wound."
This may be disheartening for 2Pac fans to contemplate, but, while Jesus did return, it wasn't for long.
Seeing Newt so shrunken is somewhat disheartening.