Example sentences for: dismayed

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

  • The London Evening Standard said that even those who wholeheartedly supported the offensive were "deeply dismayed by the fact that it is President Clinton who has made the decision, who has precipitated this grave step.

  • It goes without saying that Chatterbox is also shocked and dismayed.

  • As a prosecutor who uses testimony compelled by subpoena to investigate white-collar crime, I was dismayed to read Akhil Reed Amar's proposal, in "Right and Huang," to alter the meaning of immunity to allow for the fruits of immunized testimony to be used against a criminal defendant.

  • I am dismayed to hear of Prudence's return to her needlework.

  • Anglicans were also dismayed when Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the pope's doctrinal watchdog, signed a document that seemed to rehabilitate a much-criticized 1896 papal bull declaring the holy orders of Anglican clergy "absolutely null and utterly void."


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