Example sentences for: dismaying

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

  • 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.

  • But the company's proposed restructuring plan is nonetheless 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 Thursday's news on the inflation front was already dismaying.

  • 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."


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