DESPAIR in a Sentence

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228 example sentences for DESPAIR, such as:

1. He swings from wild optimism to total despair.
2. He skipped past the defender's despairing lunge.
3. One harsh word would send her into the depths of despair.
4. He surrendered to despair and eventually committed suicide.
5. But when he entered, misery and despair alone welcomed him.

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 Meanings and Examples of DESPAIR
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
despair
 n.  loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Having conquered the violence of his feelings, he appeared to despise himself for being the slave of passion; and quelling the dark tyranny of despair, he led me again to converse concerning myself personally.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
2  You have hope, and the world before you, and have no cause for despair.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
3  But when he entered, misery and despair alone welcomed him.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
4  His daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness, but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly decreasing and that there was no other prospect of support.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  Clerval, who had watched my countenance as I read this letter, was surprised to observe the despair that succeeded the joy I at first expressed on receiving new from my friends.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
7  But I did not feel the inconvenience of the weather; my imagination was busy in scenes of evil and despair.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
8  It was an historical subject, painted at my father's desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  I had before experienced sensations of horror, and I have endeavoured to bestow upon them adequate expressions, but words cannot convey an idea of the heart-sickening despair that I then endured.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
10  Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me which nothing could extinguish.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
11  Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
12  The blood flowed freely in my veins, but a weight of despair and remorse pressed on my heart which nothing could remove.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  Now I could only answer my father with a look of despair and endeavour to hide myself from his view.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
14  There is an expression of despair, and sometimes of revenge, in your countenance that makes me tremble.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
15  But this was a luxury of sensation that could not endure; I became fatigued with excess of bodily exertion and sank on the damp grass in the sick impotence of despair.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
Example Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1  The novel tells the story of a teenager driven to despair by the hypocrisy of the adult world.
2  If you couldn't attend either of the concerts and are currently gnashing your teeth at having missed out, don't despair.
3  Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
4  He swings from wild optimism to total despair.
5  Riligion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.
6  When his wife left him, Matt plumbed the very depths of despair.
7  One harsh word would send her into the depths of despair.
8  A low moan of despair escaped her as she realized what had gone wrong.
9  The book describes a spiritual journey from despair to happiness.
10  Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but the chalice of opportunity.
11  Eventually, driven to despair, he threw himself under a train.
12  He surrendered to despair and eventually committed suicide.
13  Nothing in life is despair, a series of disaster will be can't withstand the sunshine nightmare, to be bumpy.
14  Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits.
15  He skipped past the defender's despairing lunge.