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Example sentences for: dismaying

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The Moscow Times said, "[O]nce again, the Russians are bombing Chechen guerillas--with the same dismaying inaccuracy that in Chechnya claimed so many civilians and roused so much anti-Russian sentiment."
Given that the book topic is promising and that the author can often write very well, it is dismaying that this book is not better than it is.
But Thursday's news on the inflation front was already dismaying.
It was a pretty dismaying experience, straight out of Les Misérables : the tattered crowd, the forest of groping hands, the healthy-looking young guys who conned their way to seconds or thirds while the quiet or confused went home empty-handed.
But the company's proposed restructuring plan is nonetheless dismaying.