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Sentence count:36Posted:2017-04-11Updated:2020-07-24
Similar words: sayingslayingplayingstrayingdismaydismaldismayeddismallyMeaning: [dɪs'meɪ]  adj. causing consternation. 
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1 Local councillors have reacted with dismay and indignation.
2 He was dismayed at the size of his adversary.
3 The crowd threw up their hands in dismay.
4 He looked at her in dismay.
5 She could not hide her dismay at the result.
6 'Someone stolen my house!' she said in dismay.
7 I'm dismayed atthe cost of the new house.
8 The old man groaned with dismay.
9 She dismayed me by refusing my offer.
10 They stared at each other in dismay.
11 He was dismayed to learn of their disloyalty.
12 I was dismayed to learn that she had failed again.
13 The news has been greeted with dismay by local business leaders.
14 Aid workers were said to have been filled with dismay by the appalling conditions that the refugees were living in.
15 The government has expressed "deep dismay" at police violence against protesters.
16 The thought that she might fail the history test dismayed her.
17 His initial surge of euphoria was quickly followed by dismay.
18 To her dismay,(sentencedict.com) her name was not on the list.
19 Ruth was dismayed to see how thin he had grown.
20 He learned to his dismay that he had lost his job.
21 The visiting team lost 3-0, dismaying the folks back home .
22 This is dismaying to businesses who want to sell things.
23 But it's dismaying in the sense that people who occupy a position of relative privilege seem to go out of their way to avoid acknowledging it.
24 Friend of my soul, this is terrible, dismaying: it makes one's heart sink, it withers vital energy ...
25 Behind the story of "Giselle" lie the still dismaying, well-attested historical accounts of dance mania that caused deaths in the Rhineland in the late medieval and early Renaissance eras.
26 As dismaying as the psychotic penchant for very small dogs is,[www.Sentencedict.com] a coming penchant for very small robot dogs will be even worse.
27 The likely scenario if reform fails, on the other hand, is dismaying.
28 The truth is that a whiff of counter-revolution is hard to find - dismaying though that may be for party propagandists.
29 Who could have conjectured the circumstances of my last letter? Friend of my soul, this is terrible, dismaying: it makes one's heart sink, it withers vital energy...
30 "I sensed personally more anti-Americanism on this trip than I did at any time during the Cold War, and it was dismaying, " he said.
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