How To Use Dejectedly In A Sentence
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Having claimed his full attention, she sighed aloud quite dejectedly.
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Passengers queued dejectedly for the increasingly dirty toilets.
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I've had a word with my supervisor," I begin dejectedly, knowing what's coming next.
FREE EXCERPT: Hater by David Moody (Chapter 2)
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Dejectedly, everyone fished out their keys and laid them silently in front of the headmaster.
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Maybe they were dejectedly resigned to seeing another green field site disappear under tons of concrete?
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I, "dejectedly," haven't been in love for quite a long, long time now.
April's Lady A Novel
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Who's going to vote for Chicago in the first round besides Canada and Jamaica?" said 1960 Olympic gold medalist Bill Mulliken, walking dejectedly from the rally.
Chicago supporters crushed, confused by early elimination
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Turnip, his basset hound puppy, was pacing around dejectedly with him.
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They are dry and stiff, with the shriveled remnants of once green leaves hanging dejectedly from their limbs.
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They are dry and stiff, with the shriveled remnants of once green leaves hanging dejectedly from their limbs.
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when she came back Sophie and Esther were sitting dejectedly in the kitchen
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Reuters Giants quarterback Eli Manning walks dejectedly off the field after throwing an interception in the end zone.
Giants Their Own Worst Enemy
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I pop to the Gents in the warehouse and tidy my ponytail, peering dejectedly at my sallow face in the soap-crusted, cracked glass.
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A lone tree sat dejectedly atop a small hill, overlooking a small lake that reflected the clouded sky above.
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Habanero nodded and then walked dejectedly back over to Darcy.
Master of Mirrors
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Her fore-legs were stiff and jointless, her hip-bones painfully prominent, her ribs sadly bare, and her nose hung dejectedly toward the ground; but she still possessed some mechanical power of locomotion, and the "shay" began to squeak and rattle in her wake.
Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
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It is all very well for you "-- dejectedly --" who are tired of gayety, to go into raptures over calmness and tranquillity, and that; but if you lived in Brooklyn from summer until winter and from winter back again to summer, and if you could count your balls on one hand, "-- holding up five wet open fingers, --" you would think just as I do, and long for change.
Molly Bawn
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She sighed as she looked at the price tag that put the dress well beyond her reach, and turned to walk away dejectedly.
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The gutter on the shippon splashing its overflow on the flags of the yard, the hens crowding dejectedly within the open door of the henhouse, and the water lying green between the cobble-stones of the path.
Women of the Country
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Dejectedly they tuck into the strawberry cornets before the van is taken to a scrapyard.
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I was thoroughly discouraged, so I turned away and flopped dejectedly onto my bed.
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He took a deep breath in, and let it out slowly, his chest falling dejectedly.
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But "-- dejectedly --" one feels so much more than one knows; and when I want to know, I am never satisfied.
The Heavenly Twins
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For those who couldn't go to Denvention/WorldCon [looks dejectedly at the ground while kicking the dirt underneath the twin suns of Tatooine], here's a batch of fine Denvention/WorldCon reports and/or photo sets from:
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I sat down dejectedly next to him after he picked up his school bag.
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She began to walk out the door but she heard him sink down on the bed dejectedly.
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I ran a comb through my own hair and stared dejectedly at my reflection.
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Shown here with his gift of humor displaced by a sense of national loss, he meditates dejectedly on the capture of the Polish border town of Smolensk by the Muscovites in 1514.
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Passengers queued dejectedly for the increasingly dirty toilets.
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Sarain sat dejectedly in the warm water, staring down at its steamy surface.
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A giant live oak tree shaded the west side of the house, a long-abandoned tire swing hanging dejectedly from a sturdy branch.
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She slumped dejectedly over the wheel.
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I sat clumsily on the floor and slumped against the wall dejectedly.
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I started tearing at my hair instead, staring dejectedly at the asphalt.
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She slid dejectedly into her seat, slumping a little and propping her head up on her desktop, her fingers halfway into her hair, and closed her eyes for a moment.
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They descended dejectedly into the hollow of the mountains, and found themselves once more immerged in woods.
The Italian
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Then the young salesman drags himself dejectedly across the carlot, head down, to see if the boss will accept our counter offer.
Grouse Diary Entry
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Absentmindedly rolling a piece of bologna into a tube before biting into it, I hoped dejectedly that that wasn't what my dealing with Andrew was coming to.
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Other carnivorous birds, especially the bluebirds, sat dejectedly on the fences waiting for spring.
Bird Cloud
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The little boy walked dejectedly down the cracked sidewalk.