Example sentences for: dismay

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

  • Such was the subsequent dismay among reactionary factions at this sign of weakness that the Tokugawa shogunate was soon overthrown.

  • Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg put the school into the news this month when she expressed her dismay about online legal education to the San Jose Mercury News . Ginsburg decried the lack of "face-to-face interaction," to which Concord student William Boletta responded, "I suggest that she might want to take a Tylenol or two and get ready for the 21 st century."

  • [ Anglo-American ] Expletive, oath, or exclamation expressing anger, disappointment, disgust, dismay, rage, as “damn!”

  • I give the expression of dismay; you give its object.

  • often in the end to their dismay."


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