DEPRESSED in a Sentence

Learn DEPRESSED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
177 example sentences for DEPRESSED, such as:
1. It bewildered and depressed her.
2. The little girl depressed the button.
3. He began to feel depressed and helpless.
4. The soldier depressed the muzzle of a gun.
5. Expect to feel angry, depressed and confused.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of DEPRESSED
depressed
 a.  lower than previously
 a.  filled with melancholy and despondency
Classic Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1  The dim room with towering walls completely filled with dark books depressed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Large numbers of books always depressed her, as did people who liked to read large numbers of books.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  It bewildered and depressed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Besides, the tone of the letter vaguely depressed her with its foolish talk of defeat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  Captain Carey Ashburn's useless arm was hurting him again and moreover he was depressed by the thought that his courtship of Scarlett was at a standstill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  But happy or depressed, she was too thin, too white.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  The whole darkening room depressed her and, going to the window, she raised the sash, unlatched the shutters and let the last light of the wintry sunset into the room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  Once she had known practically everyone in Atlanta and the sight of so many strange names depressed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  Thus barred from him, depressed in the thought of Fern, Carol was suddenly and for the first time convinced that she loved Erik.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  After that she could be irritated but she could not be depressed by Aunt Bessie's simoom of questioning.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  Strictly speaking, this horn is but a lengthened tusk, growing out from the jaw in a line a little depressed from the horizontal.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
12  If he, as he said, 'forgot himself' and swore before grandmother, he went about depressed and shamefaced all day.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
13  For some reason she felt depressed, almost unhappy.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
14  Edna felt depressed rather than soothed after leaving them.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
15  The murky, lowering sky, which had depressed her a few hours before, seemed bracing and invigorating as she splashed through the streets on her way home.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
Example Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1  The threat of war has depressed business activity.
2  The thought of taking the exam again depressed him.
3  The worker depressed the lever to start the machine.
4  This failure leaves the child depressed and frustrated.
5  In mitigation, the defence lawyer said his client was seriously depressed at the time of the assault.
6  Parents of young children often become depressed, and this is especially true of single parents.
7  Expect to feel angry, depressed and confused.
8  He began to feel depressed and helpless.
9  The little girl depressed the button.
10  Outside investment has helped Sheridan to shake off its image as a depressed industrial town.
11  Statistics indicate that depressed patients are more likely to become ill than are normal people.
12  I miss you when I am depressed, just as I miss the sunlight in winter; I miss you when I feel happy, just as I miss the shade in the hot sun.
13  He became very depressed and even got suicidal at one point.
14  The soldier depressed the muzzle of a gun.
15  He was depressed and in a confused state of mind.