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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.
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."
Indeed, it would be disheartening, as well as entirely untrue, if one were to think that this book was published as an act of philanthropy, as something that ought to be done.
And perhaps most disheartening, UPN continues to air episodes of Love Boat: The Next Wave .
Seeing Newt so shrunken is somewhat disheartening.