Example sentences for: dismay

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

  • The surgeon with Tourette's, the blind man who regained his sight to his dismay, the subjects variously marooned in the hippie subculture of 1969 or in a Tuscan village of the 1930s, the remarkably gifted autists--all are admirable, all are moving, all are acutely recognizable in human terms.

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

  • In London, the Daily Telegraph carried a front-page cartoon of a dog sitting in the president's chair in the Oval Office and reading with dismay the newspaper headline "Starr Report: Buddy Stole Biscuits on 11 Separate Occasions."

  • To the dismay of still others, Clark neither confirms nor denies the rumor that she and fellow prosecutor Christopher Darden slept together.

  • To the dismay of Franco diehards, the king brilliantly managed the transition to democracy, then stood back to allow it full rein, even intervening during a brief attempt at a military coup.


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