How To Use Dejection In A Sentence
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Tiredness might have played its part, but the sense of dejection and depression emanating from the studio clouded the whole broadcast.
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His legs gave out from under him and he sank to his knees, his whole form shaking, his shoulders slumped with pure dejection.
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Brit managed a weak smile in Toby's direction, which he returned in equal measures of relief that he wouldn't be alone and dejection that he'd be without the rest of us.
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They found that those without had thrown fagots enough upon the fire to serve the purpose of light and heat at the same time, and, wrapping themselves in their cloaks, had sat down on the floor, in postures which variously expressed the discomposure and dejection of their minds.
Quentin Durward
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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In the rare moments when the self-reproach would ease up, grief or dejection would engulf him.
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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How often, gliding by in barrenness, has it cast a shade of unutterable dejection on the dial of a sunless day.
Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
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He did not sprawl loosely in dejection, as had the negro, but he sat with one foot beside the stone and his body leaning half-forward, his muscles tense, like a forest cat awaiting its spring.
Plotting in Pirate Seas
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But, just as there were celebrations, so too was there a feeling of dejection and loss among those who had worked hard to block the bill.
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The distinguishing mental features of melancholia are a profoundly painful dejection, abrogation of interest in the outside world, loss of the capacity to love, inhibition of all activity.
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Her mood changed from one of weary dejection to one of vigorous freshness.
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Tiredness might have played its part, but the sense of dejection and depression emanating from the studio clouded the whole broadcast.
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Is she bowed down before God in prostration of need, in conscious dejection of unworthiness, in passionate self-abasement and desire for that renewal which comes through renunciation?
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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The sense of dejection was palpable from the club.
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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There was a slight air of dejection about her.
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There were tears and dejection and frustration and misery and anger for North Ribblesdale last Saturday.
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That feeling of dejection could be very depressing for a child if he is not able to establish a relationship he wants.
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The lithoid masses here cover, if we may use the expression, the shore of the ancient interior sea; everything subject to destruction, such as the liquid dejections, and the scoriae filled with bubbles, has been carried away.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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All of the fight went out of him and he settled on the brick ledge, his shoulders slumped in dejection.
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But now, more than ever, he seemed to have completely sunk into the depths of dejection.
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They had made promises, but what has happened, what we have seen and experienced has plunged us into dejection and despair.
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His opposition to the policy of militant nationalism which inspiredthe Mexican War had, he believed, ruined his political hopes; and living constantly with the great unhewn stones of his ambition,he was often betrayed, in the early fifties, into a moroseness or dejection of temper, for he saw no way either to rid himselfof his ambitious desires or to put them to a constructive use.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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She sat up sleepily and in deep dejection dropped her chin wearily in her hands, thinking of the day's chore.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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I sighed; but my father kindly forbore to question me further concerning the cause of my dejection.
Chapter 1
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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That feeling of dejection could be very depressing for a child if he is not able to establish a relationship he wants.
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Inside the little white cottage, however, in Miss Martin's sitting-room -- so queer and fascinating with its "forms," its samples and "trimmings" pinned to the curtains, its alluring display of fashion magazines and "charts," and its eternal litter of varicoloured scraps over the floor -- Missy's momentary dejection could but vanish.
Missy
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Many wore the traditional yellow shirts of the four-times champions and there was little sympathy for England's dejection on the Falls Road, still festooned with Irish tricolours.
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Putting his elbows on his knees, he leaned forward slightly, holding his face in his hands, his shoulders slumped in complete dejection.
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It never occurred to him that her dejection might be a ruse to get his pity, nor was it.
DANSVILLE
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At the very least, there is no reason for dejection.
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And, as I stood there in silent dejection, I thought that the whole experience was so utterly, utterly typical of this Government.
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As Jean's family and friends assemble on the dust-choked incline, the mood has subsided into dejection, and hundreds perch on the walls around the cemetery, staring vacantly out across the hills.
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I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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Immediately on the commencement had thirst, nausea, and cardialgia; tongue dry; bowels disordered, with thin and scanty dejections; had no sleep.
Of The Epidemics
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The woman who lodged at the house of Tisamenas had a troublesome attack of iliac passion, much vomiting; could not keep her drink; pains about the hypochondria, and pains also in the lower part of the belly; constant tormina; not thirsty; became hot; extremities cold throughout, with nausea and insomnolency; urine scanty and thin; dejections undigested, thin, scanty.
Of The Epidemics
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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Celebration time for the players in sky blue, dejection, utter dejection, for the gallant Gaeltacht.
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A look of dejection passed through her eyes as she looked away, trying not to feel hurt by his turndown.
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When Zarathustra had spoken thus unto the hunchback, and unto those of whom the hunchback was the mouthpiece and advocate, then did he turn to his disciples in profound dejection, and said:
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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The patient affected with phrenitis, having taken to bed on the first day, vomited largely of verdigris-green and thin matters; fever, accompanied with rigors, copious and continued sweats all over; heaviness of the head and neck, with pain; urine thin, substances floating in the urine small, scattered, did not subside; had copious dejections from the bowels; very delirious; no sleep.
Of The Epidemics
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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Side by side they were sitting on a bench, the picture of dejection.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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Compounding this dejection, untenured lecturers are discovering the practical meanings of what most of the US labor force already knows about the practicalities of at-will termination.
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She sat in the corner in utter dejection.
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But their elation turned to dejection as their opponents snatched victory from them in a nail-biting penalty shoot-out.
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He was leaning against a table in the hall, heavy with dejection or sleep.
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The one thing I know I could describe is the rollercoaster ride that your feelings experience, from abject dejection at diagnosis to jubilation at a positive blood count.
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Coleridge also saw a bird in a larch tree, a ‘throstle’ or thrush in a larch appears in a version of what became his Dejection Ode.
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On the twentieth, sweated all over; apyrexia, dejections bilious; aversion to food, comatose.
Of The Epidemics
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On the seventh, all the symptoms were exacerbated; had no sleep, but the urine of the same characters, and the understanding disordered; alvine dejections bilious and fatty.
Of The Epidemics
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To fits of hypochondria and deep dejection he had, as he himself tells us, been subject from his earliest manhood, and he attributes to overtoil in boyhood this tendency which was probably a part of his natural temperament.
Robert Burns
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Once, indeed, he guides her hand to transcribe in a book the words of her exaltation, the Ave, and the Magnificat, and the Gaude Maria, and the young angels, glad to rouse her for a moment from her dejection, are eager to hold the inkhorn and to support the book.
English literary criticism
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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I am assailed by disappointment, no one will endeavour to sustain me in dejection.
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The passion whose violence or continuance maketh madness is either great vainglory, which is commonly called pride and self-conceit, or great dejection of mind.
Leviathan
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You can feel the raw pain radiating off her; the despair and dejection are thick in the air about her.
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Over the past four years, I have seen his face evolve into picture of dejection.
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The first four books of the "Institutes" treat of the rules governing the monastic life, illustrated by examples from the author's personal observation in Egypt and Palestine; the eight remaining books are devoted to the eight principal obstacles to perfection encountered by monks: gluttony, impurity, covetousness, anger, dejection, accidia
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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She smiled tentatively at Caroline's compliment, but there was a slight air of dejection about her.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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His heart sank and the disappointment and utter dejection he felt was sharp and foreign.
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The luscious passion of the seraglio is the only one almost that is gratified here to the full; but it is blended so with the surly spirit of despotism in one of the parties, and with the dejection and anxiety which this spirit produces in the other, that, to one of my way of thinking, it cannot appear otherwise than as a very mixed kind of enjoyment.
Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
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Dejection, on the other hand, is an essential constituent of tennis.
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Nat's face was set, his usually warm, soft expression was hard and chilly, his cloudy eyes hinting at sorrow and dejection.
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There is likewise more or less headache, neuralgia, giddiness, hebetude (state of mild stupidity), dejection, confusion of the senses, skin disease, acne rosacea (scarlet redness of the nose and cheeks), eczema, etc.
Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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It was called the Prato, and by the shocking discrepancy between its name and appearance added to my dejection, for the one recalled and the other mocked memories of that green and sunlit plain in Padua, that dear Pra della Valle, upon whose grassy dimples looked the house of Aurelia, and to whose wandering winds
The Fool Errant
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The most glorious moment in your life are not the socalled days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.
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The preparations included specimens of choleraic dejections dried on covering glasses, stained with fuchsin or methyl-blue, and examined with oil immersion, one-twelfth, and Abbe's condenser; also sections of intestine preserved in absolute alcohol, and stained with methyl-blue.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884
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For most of the evening, until Dean hit the stage, the crowd rested somewhere between disappointment and dejection.
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Many wore the traditional yellow shirts of the four-times champions and there was little sympathy for England's dejection on the Falls Road, still festooned with Irish tricolours.
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Dejection of spirits is an epidemical disease, and unless some fortunate event or other gives a turn to the disorder, in time it may prevail.
Robert Morris
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Depression refers to a state of dejection, loneliness, and hopelessness.
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In the rare moments when the self-reproach would ease up, grief or dejection would engulf him.
