How To Use Disconsolately In A Sentence

  • Better have lied straight out," more than one hard old man said to him, but Ted Hardy could not lie _straight out_, and so he staid out and waited around disconsolately for Daisy, whom fortune sometimes favored and sometimes deserted. Bessie's Fortune A Novel
  • Seriously, men have become sulky load of Primates picking their ears disconsolately behind a jungle shrub and the interweb is populated by more than its share of embittered divorced males. Happy Valentines Day I Don`t Think
  • A small boy sits disconsolately on a park bench, finishing up what looks like a packed lunch; we feel instinctively worried, protective - where are his parents?
  • A group of young men from the city's environmental protection department stood around disconsolately, debating whether to go and have a drink instead.
  • Shorty sat down disconsolately on the gunwale, took a chew of tobacco, and questioned the universe, while Kit baled the boat and the other two exchanged unkind remarks. THE MEAT
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  • He saw the maintenance crew posed disconsolately on a hill.
  • As we drove disconsolately out of the fabled Canaan Valley, the clouds opened up and it started to pour rain. McKay Jenkins: A National Park in West Virginia?
  • After watching the episode concerning Culloden in Battlefield Britain this week, I found myself disconsolately singing Archive 2009-08-01
  • A "rooky," who had joined the company, stood on the dock disconsolately. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia
  • And he looked disconsolately at the Minstrel, as though in fear that he would be discouraged from the adventure. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
  • The distraught mother of the slain young man said disconsolately at his funeral, ‘I don't know who to blame for my son's death.
  • For two or three days it's OK, but for more than that it's a big problem for me," said Matar, 25, a worker at the aluminium refinery who was picking disconsolately through the broken glass and charred debris by Lulu hypermarket. Protests in Oman Sputter
  • The trail was yet slippery with the slime of the flood, and men were rummaging disconsolately in the rubbish of overthrown tents and caches. CHAPTER 3
  • You consider breaking into the Christmas Club money to splurge on a pint in the local, but you remember you did that last month to pay for new shoes for the kids, so you disconsolately heat up some value-range beans and huddle around EastEnders for warmth the Sky subscription went months ago. How do I get…
  • Increasingly, however, he was becoming listless and withdrawn, refusing invitations to play and grooming himself disconsolately.
  • As the afternoon wears on, malaise sets in; I'm tired of music, tired of reading, tired of telly, and start flicking disconsolately through the channels.
  • I roamed disconsolately up and down the bank, keeping as close to him in his involuntary travels as I could, while he wailed and cried till it was a wonder that he did not bring down upon us every hunting animal within a mile. CHAPTER X
  • A man and woman, at their heels a motley following of brats and curs, trailed disconsolately by. THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
  • I noticed as the day wore on today that some of these people -- and there are some that are teenage boys, some of them middle-aged men -- for the first time, they were waving kind of disconsolately at us as we drove by. CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2003
  • ‘I've been going to various media organisations, but not many are impressed,’ says he disconsolately.
  • The other stood on the edge of the nest, looking down fearfully into the abyss, whither, no doubt, his bolder nest mate had flown, and calling disconsolately from time to time. Wilderness Ways
  • Leon looked after him rather disconsolately, as though at a loss to understand what could have happened to take all the fight and "bumptiousness" out of the former bully. The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey

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