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Example sentences for: dismaying

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The paper added that however dismaying it was to discover that Sydney might not have won the 2000 Olympics on merit alone, the task now was clear: "All details in relation to the Sydney bid should be disclosed.
There are many essays about how much he missed my mom when she died, about how much he loved the sights of Washington, about how dismaying it was that there was still so much confusion about basic issues in economics.
But as someone who read a vast amount of what had been written about Diana, conducted 150 interviews (many with her intimates), and included 60 pages of detailed footnotes, I find it dismaying that Slate would run such a disingenuous review.
Such a message is particularly dismaying when one is able to fill in only one or two words after an hour.
But Thursday's news on the inflation front was already dismaying.