How To Use Despondent In A Sentence
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She seduces the despondent radical with whispers about the bleakness of mankind.
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I fretted as we trundled slowly home in a rather despondent way.
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Diana took the criticism to heart, avidly read what was being said about her and became depressed and despondent.
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But in spite of his melancholy bearing and despondent expression, there were few who could say that they had ever seen a man of more distinguished presence.
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I mean, to say they were depressed or despondent is too light.
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Ephram is despondent when he is disinvited to a party by Amy's popular friends, and Delia struggles with the school bully.
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Don't become despondent just because it seems that your employer is keen to drive a hard bargain.
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DadBoner, who is either a real person or a profound literary construction, the despondent American post-marriage male persona nonpareil, Homer Simpson's Kafkaesque better.
Aaron Belz: Literary Twitter: @DadBoner
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A woman was sitting in the house one night feeling despondent.
Christianity Today
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We are set homework each day and I spend a lot of time on it, feeling despondent at my lack of ability.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm feeling pretty slothful and despondent today, so I've took the lazy option of filling a bit of blogspace by copying down one of those questionnaires that I so detest.
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UPDATE: The NYT reports that the man, Leeland Eisenberg, now in custody, was said to be "despondent," because he was facing a divorce, and that he'd been on a drinking binge.
"A man has just walked into the Clinton office, opened his coat and showed us a bomb strapped to his chest with duct tape."
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I wandered despondently along, trailing my new sports bag through the dog-ends and sweet wrappers that littered the concrete of the playground.
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The funny thing about all this is that just last week I was having despondent ‘I've hit my peak in this damned career!’
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His self-penned songs track his career from despondent dreams of stardom to the travesty of having achieved them.
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despondent about his failure
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Oblivious to cues, devoid of gaydar, I shuffle through my days, despondently convinced that no one could possibly find me attractive.
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There are times when it is hard not to feel despondent.
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But we have compensations - we have tourism and the associated factors so we need to build on that and not be despondent.
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Your note, I can scarcely tell why, hurt me, and produced a kind of winterly smile, which diffuses a beam of despondent tranquillity over the features.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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He was lying on a table looking despondent, but he was still so happy with the result.
Times, Sunday Times
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The crew were polite, but looked exhausted and despondent as they tried to sell us scratch cards.
Times, Sunday Times
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For me this began just two minutes after the final whistle, with despondent Lundoners in the street muttering into their handies about sensorily challenged linesmen, crap refereeing, and unforgivably bad playing by the England side.
Francis Sedgemore
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Jason cast a despondent look in my direction and allowed himself to be dragged away.
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After a good few years of success supporters got very despondent for a while as the team faltered in mid season and the manager came under fire.
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Well, as you can see, the story will be that Pan Xo, despondent over the loss of his illicit lover to the arms of another man, took his own life by slashing open his own veins, but not before dispatching his lover and her dallier in a more, shall we say, dramatic fashion.
Asimov's Science Fiction
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It was a break they both needed as both had been depressed and despondent.
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He didn't become despondent but realised he needed to make changes to his squad and did that last summer.
The Sun
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Like a bucket of cold water the harsh realities of life drown your sunny optimism leaving you feeling despondent.
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Until recently, such fantasies were expressed mainly by the far right, or in the laments of despondent Oxbridge dons.
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He became/grew increasingly despondent when she failed to return his phone calls.
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Gradually he became despondent and pretty much stayed in his room for eight weeks, busy discovering the wonders of opiates, hashish, and lysergic acid diethylamide.
Full Frontal Nudity
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‘The UFOs never landed,’ Asencio says despondently, as though those deep-space deadbeats were ever supposed to be reliable.
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It is estimated that 3,000 tickets were sold, leaving many supporters, ticketless, despondent and very angry.
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Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 2 The First of the Three Spirits | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
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She selects a despondent boy and gives a note fished from the depths of her handbag.
BAG LADY BLUES • by Mark Dalligan
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So having secured the barrico (and with no small to-do) I hove it ashore and got myself after it, and so came mighty despondent where sat Sir Richard as one deep in thought, his gaze on the sea, his shrivelled hand upon the head of the dog Pluto crouched beside him.
Martin Conisby's Vengeance
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Mexico's ambassador, Fernando de Mateo y Venturini, speaking in English, said he had learnt a new word last week -- "despondent" -- though maybe "angst" was more appropriate.
Insurance Journal
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Although one could perceive her actions as upright, correct, and admirable, it is obvious to the viewer that she is overly castigatory and despondent.
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These friends also characterize the young writer as "despondent" over the recent revelations.
Tina Brown's Contract Negotiations at The New Yorker
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She has been dreadfully out of sorts lately, and she has sunk into a kind of despondent state.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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The story line is fast-paced from the opening sequence of three years ago when a despondent Shade thinks his brother died and never slows down as Roag spellbinds them as lifemates to destroy his sibling.
Desire Unchained-Larissa Ione « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
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Your note -- I can scarcely tell why, hurt me -- and produced a kind of winterly smile, which diffuses a beam of despondent tranquillity over the features.
Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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He was then told he looked a bit despondent.
The Sun
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In matches, I was not competing at all and feeling despondent on court.
Times, Sunday Times
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I remember how despondent and disheartened we were as the doctor's findings were reported.
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Other resources were in short supply as well: in 1887 the journal of the National Museum in Rio reported despondently on the difficulties of obtaining Indian skulls for phrenological research.
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I find myself sat despondently at my desk, trying to come to terms with the fact that I actually have to work for living.
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Astronauts, it seems, don't get enough natural light up there, and can become too despondent to moonwalk.
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When you are feeling particularly despondent, you might reflect that this illness is preferable to heart disease or cancer.
The Allergy Handbook
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Xiao Ming is quite despondent, for he lost his beloved bicycle.
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She started to feel despondent about ever finding a job.
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We're all a bit despondent this morning, anyway.
Times, Sunday Times
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Back at your desk, look utterly despondent.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was becoming increasingly despondent about the way things were going.
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As you can imagine, we were all a bit gutted and despondent.
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He was up for a time and then, without warning, despondent again.
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I feel despondent when my work is rejected.
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Many who have done physical work all their lives will be utterly despondent.
Times, Sunday Times
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And the other tenants become despondent.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are times when it is hard not to feel despondent.
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The web site reports that a relative said Trevino, a 26-year-old MMA fighter, was "despondent" after breaking up with Perry, a 23-year-old model.
Kenny Trevino & Tiffanie Perry Dead From Apparent Murder-Suicide (PICTURES)
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I have a particularly clear memory of one soldier sitting on a step looking despondent.
BLACK KNIGHTS: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad
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Baby's disposition or the behavior may have the change, if the fall in the blues, is despondent and is restless, some are agitated testiness .
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They plodded aimlessly and despondent through the subpolar surroundings.
Parlor Games
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The despondent manner in which Ray walked towards the dug-out said it all.
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Why were you then comfortless and despondent, when I was escorted by the guards into the jail?
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Coming back to reality is no fun and it could make you feel angry, despondent and helpless.
Times, Sunday Times
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They'll still be despondent after going so agonisingly close, but that historic first title might not be too far off now.
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He was not too despondent after his defeat and believes he can launch a stronger bid when he has gained more experience.
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Maggie takes in the despondent Victoria, a bright and sensitive girl whose life is on the brink of total meltdown.
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Liam's voice, even though it is distinctive, it's different for the lone fact that no one else could sound as whiney, grainy and completely despondent with everything.
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The lads are so despondent but they did really well, especially in the first half, and the effort and commitment was what we have been asking for.
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He was depressed, despondent, and in total despair.
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A man is sometimes despondent from disappointment, is gloomy, and has no courage to work.
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There were reports that classmates felt he had seemed despondent.
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Fingers, a composer facing writer's block when it comes to his symphony, is despondent.
Michael Giltz: Theater: New York Musical Festival (NYMF) Roundup
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Sometimes it manifests itself in the milder forms of hallucination, or monomania, but in the majority of cases, the patient sinks into a despondent hypochondria, which is many times followed, sooner or later, by a raving mania.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
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A visit from Canterbury certainly cheers up hard-pressed and often despondent clergy and congregations.
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It's all too easy to feel despondent about modern life.
Times, Sunday Times
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You may be too easily irritated or despondent, exasperating friends and family with exacting demands and finicky attitudes.
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This seemed to throw the therapists a bit of a curve; the more despondent the client got, the less the therapists asked her questions about what that was like.
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Of course, he may have been despondent for personal reasons having nothing to do with any of this.
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A man is sometimes despondent from disappointment, is gloomy, and has no courage to work.
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He started to feel trapped, despondent and depressed.
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If we had a few more sportsmen and women who were utterly despondent about coming second, we might win a few more things.
The Sun
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He became/grew increasingly despondent when she failed to return his phone calls.
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Like a bucket of cold water the harsh realities of life drown your sunny optimism leaving you feeling despondent.
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The battle's on now, to a finish," muttered Fran despondently, "yet here I sit, and here I scrooch.
Fran
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The mood at Auckland Park was "despondent" after news broke of the exit of a fourth radio chief in as many months.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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I feel tearful, angry, despondent, restless, annoyed, irritable and prickly all at the same time.
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If Freelove's body language in singles seemed despondent, he was quite the reverse in the doubles.
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Rafael van der Vaart left 'despondent' by snub from Holland coach
Everyone in Holland loves watching Spurs, says Rafael van der Vaart
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For, the nonsweet medallist to clopping a swede despondent or taleban to hotbox a hymnary can be gynecologic papaveraceae for voussoir.
Rational Review
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He glanced at his wife - a quick, despondent peek - and then looked at me pitifully.
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But as the separation from her husband lengthened, she found herself becoming increasingly despondent.
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With a little love, work and patience, you can transform ferocious felines and despondent dogs into friends of the family.
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She was becoming increasingly despondent about the way things were going.
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The red and black segment of the crowd were in delirium, the blue and white silent and despondent.
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On Friday I went to Port Lyttelton, meeting on the way many of our late fellow-passengers — some despondent, some hopeful; one or two dinnerless and in the dumps when we first encountered them, but dinnered and hopeful when we met them again on our return.
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
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The blue bouffant takes on a more "mature" hue — which may not be the best timing, because Homer has suddenly and unexpectedly become a chick magnet while acting as a despondent Moe's wingman.
Matt's Weekend Picks: February 11-13
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But in spite of his melancholy bearing and despondent expression, there were few who could say that they had ever seen a man of more distinguished presence.
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Two weeks in a cold snowy environment had made my joints dramatically worse, so I arrived back feeling very despondent.
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Its mood is angry and despondent.
Times, Sunday Times
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Besides, Ireland is really not so negligible from the commercial-theatrical point of view as some of our more despondent patriots seem to suppose.
Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
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He became/grew increasingly despondent when she failed to return his phone calls.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. -- A prosecutor says a Fort Wayne police officer was justified in fatally shooting a man police described as despondent, paranoid and intoxicated.
IndyStar.com Top Stories
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If in doing so he were to be perceived as another wealthy and indolent foreigner (usually German or French but not always so) suffering and despondent because of a katzenjammer from a previous night of quaffing Laos Beer, so be it.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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The book then traces the rise of missionary activity in both China and India and the dismay of these evangelists in attempting to convert and shepherd a drug-addled and despondent flock.
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He became suicidal, despondent about the end of his boxing career and his disfigurement.
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I was so embarrassed by myself, but I was also really despondent.
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Having turned down the chance to flee, the former president became increasingly despondent.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are also, though, lots and lots of people in this country who are extremely despondent.
