Example sentences for: dismayed

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

  • 2. Bohdan Krawchenko, a Ukrainian democratic activist, is dismayed at his country's rigged presidential elections.

  • The Clinton push on Medicaid coverage for poor children, which will be featured in the upcoming State of the Union message, apparently came, says the Times , after the president was dismayed to discover that most states had made little progress on this since he first started talking about it early last year.

  • 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."

  • Many are dismayed at Kasdan's inability to match his acclaimed early efforts such as Body Heat , The Big Chill , and The Accidental Tourist . (Visit the official site to see stills and clips from the film.)

  • 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.


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