DISPIRITED in a Sentence

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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.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISPIRITED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  Slowly the weary, dispirited creatures, wound their way into the room, and, with crouching reluctance, presented their baskets to be weighed.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
4  Her mind was so much weakened that she still fancied present exertion impossible, and therefore it only dispirited her more.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 38
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.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVII
6  The troops meanwhile stood growing listless and dispirited.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV
7  The others all followed, dispirited and shamefaced, and only much later were they able to regain their former affectation of indifference.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI
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.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I.
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 ...
10  He was a small emaciated animal and he stood with his head dispiritedly low, almost between his forelegs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
11  She had a dispiriting first month of hunting lodgings in the crowded city.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  However, nothing dispirits, and nothing seems worth while disputing.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. The Hyena.
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.