despite

How To Use despite In A Sentence

• A few minutes with the heron book cleared up the mystery; they were tricolored herons, the first I had ever seen.10 By the end of the month American goldfinches were shooting around like tossed gold pieces despite another cold spell. Bird Cloud
• Sadly, none of a myriad of ingenious contraptions, despite inventors' claims, puts forth more energy than it absorbs.
• Despite the lateness of the hour Annabel gathered her skirts and prepared to take a solitary ramble in the garden.
• My dad, despite his rampant hypochondria, had always been healthy.
• Despite imperial successes at St. Gotthard (1664), Growardein and Neuhäusel in Hungary ceded to the Ottomans (1664, at Vasvár). 2. The Habsburg Monarchy
• Despite their superficial similarity, submersion of minorities in English-only programs in the USA and Canadian immersion programs are different and they lead to different results.
• In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive.
• But after three years of frantic knitting, they decided to end the challenge, despite reaching halfway.
• The vital ingredient of popular appeal was not there despite several bids to rejig the story.
• Despite his bulk he moved lightly on his feet.