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14 example sentences for DISPIRITED, such as:
1. The troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited.
2. However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing.
3. She had a dispiriting first month of hunting lodgings in the crowded city.
4. For days he had drooped about the empty chicken run, too dispirited to crow.
5. He was a small emaciated animal and he stood with his head dispiritedly low, almost between his forelegs.
2. However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing.
3. She had a dispiriting first month of hunting lodgings in the crowded city.
4. For days he had drooped about the empty chicken run, too dispirited to crow.
5. He was a small emaciated animal and he stood with his head dispiritedly low, almost between his forelegs.
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Meanings and Examples of DISPIRITED
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dispirited
a. lacking in spirit; affected or marked by low spirits
Classic Sentence:
1 For days he had drooped about the empty chicken run, too dispirited to crow.
2 Slowly the weary, dispirited creatures, wound their way into the room, and, with crouching reluctance, presented their baskets to be weighed.
3 The hunt was long, animated, and thorough, but unsuccessful; and, with grave, ironic exultation, Cassy looked down on Legree, as, weary and dispirited, he alighted from his horse.
4 Her mind was so much weakened that she still fancied present exertion impossible, and therefore it only dispirited her more.
5 Thankee, Sir," returned Joe, evidently dispirited by the proposal, "since you are so kind as make chice of coffee, I will not run contrairy to your own opinions.
6 The troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited.
7 The others all followed, dispirited and shamefaced, and only much later were they able to regain their former affectation of indifference.
8 Being quite dispirited with toil, and wholly overcome by grief and dispair, I lay down between two ridges, and heartily wished I might there end my days.
9 "They must all be very dispirited," he said.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context Highlight In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
Context Highlight In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ...
10 He was a small emaciated animal and he stood with his head dispiritedly low, almost between his forelegs.
11 She had a dispiriting first month of hunting lodgings in the crowded city.
12 However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing.
Example Sentence:
1 The coach used all the tricks at his command to buoy up the enthusiasm of his team, which had become dispirited at the loss of the star player.
2 To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation.