How To Use Disheartening In A Sentence

  • That was pretty discouraging and disheartening to see that happening, and it happened repeatedly.
  • A disheartening scene flashed into view: a barren landscape, fruitless, scorched by a blazing, merciless sun.
  • It's a bit disheartening because I have all these wonderful new roles. Times, Sunday Times
  • Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I dont know if I'm sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I'm a bit on my own and thats a very disheartening feeling. Drew Barrymore 
  • Rugeley is the worst of these; for it seems to have fallen back - from the staring red brick, perfectly modern, outworks that can get nothing to do - upon the old village street, which is built of sad, sullen-looking dirty-brown stone, miserable without the once-adjoining fields, and most disheartening to the passenger from the utterly unprosperous look of the place.
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  • Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I dont know if I'm sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I'm a bit on my own and thats a very disheartening feeling. Drew Barrymore 
  • It's disheartening to see what little progress has been made.
  • IT'S a disheartening statistic for any aspiring actor: most will spend about 80 per cent of their working life "resting".
  • But yes, the trend in covers is really disheartening, - especially - when used to push stories that don't really belong in that market! "Quell the rage that deeply seethes, the extremes of these devotions."
  • But what I did find disheartening is being reminded just how many people don't even try to think about or rethink their preconceptions. Fanboys Are Stupid, But You Are Not - Anil Dash
  • Instead, it became a liability, a disheartening battle of egos between its figureheads and led to attendant galvanization along the lines of high culture versus low among the population at large.
  • Though it may seem disheartening to think that this amazing band was greatly a product of a master plan, try to think of it in terms of them being the product of a great idea, or the dreams of a visionary, because that is closer to the truth.
  • Despite losing its previous two games to Arizona and USC in disheartening fashion, Cal is headed to the Holiday Bowl to play Texas A&M on Dec. 28. USATODAY.com - College Football - Stanford vs. California
  • What I find disheartening is the 'mean spirited nature' of so many comments on this and other sites. Clinton: No cause for alarm
  • Few things are more disheartening than witnessing arrangements you've worked hard to organise vanish, and with very little notice. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is scope to improve its sourcing - it is slightly disheartening to see that it is purchasing such staples as eggs from Italy. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sight of grown men hurling abuse at someone who had voluntarily given up a Saturday morning to referee a kids match is truly disheartening for everyone involved.
  • One memphis tennessee hotels, who broody a invalidating vientiane in grass antibiosis, is gerrymander to wallace eco tough to hamamelidanthum this disheartening. Rational Review
  • Few things are more disheartening than watching arrangements you've carefully nurtured come apart. Times, Sunday Times
  • One gets that disheartening impression that the Caucus posters relish in subtly amplifying the FOX News “flip-flopper” meme. Obama Addresses Critics on ‘Centrist’ Moves - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
  • I find it very disheartening. The Sun
  • She has a rather disheartening editorial about the expurgation from educational textbooks anything that could possibly give offense to people.
  • This is disheartening as I am merely a dork, which I define as being interested in geeky and nerdy things yet lacking adequate intelligence to be proficient in them. Archive 2007-09-01
  • Although certain businesses have donated paint, wood offcuts and other items over the year, he said it was disheartening to see the lack of interest by the public.
  • Equally disheartening is the fact that the Iranian authorities are repressing women in a far more dangerous and direct way than passing draconian "family protection" laws: dozens, if not hundreds of women's rights activists have been personally targeted for arrest or extralegal attacks. Shayan Ghajar: Iranian Women Poised for Major Setback
  • One hears the disheartening sound of doors closing and catches a waft of stale air. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's quite disheartening for a peely-wally Scot, but it sure is easy on the eye.
  • Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. Joseph Joubert 
  • The Golden Bears had lost to Arizona and Southern California in disheartening fashion before beating rival Stanford and then the Aggies (9-4). USATODAY.com - College Football - Texas A&M vs. California
  • Few things are more disheartening than seeing plans or ideas that are dear to your heart being challenged, if not demolished. Times, Sunday Times
  • It must be disheartening work learning a musical instrument. Three Men in a Boat
  • In Shanghai, news about ailing octogenarians abandoned by their children is disheartening, gnawing at the consciences of upright people.
  • Spain routed struggling newcomer Ukraine 4-0 Wednesday, a sizzling start in search of a title after 11 futile, often disheartening attempts. USATODAY.com - David Villa scores twice as Spain reigns over Ukraine 4-0
  • It is not awful, but its steady flow of roots rock near-misses is, at the very least, disheartening.
  • Darkness had fallen when the little party commenced to resaddle their ponies and in the midst of their labors there came a rude and disheartening interruption. The Mucker
  • walty" -- inclined to roll -- that the captain set off with misgiving, and as she moved away the crew heard this solemn and disheartening invocation from a clergyman on the wharf: -- "Lord, if it be thy pleasure to bury these, our friends, in the bottom of the sea, take them; they are thine: save them. Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land
  • The weeks from Vienna to the 22 nd Party Congress had nevertheless been cruel and disheartening.
  • It's a disheartening process, but Mike is keen to acknowledge that the key to success is perseverance and determination.
  • Either is possible, because the disheartening news about unfilial children still alerts me to the possibility of the son turning his back on his mother.
  • Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I dont know if I'm sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I'm a bit on my own and thats a very disheartening feeling. Drew Barrymore 
  • Few things are more disheartening than witnessing arrangements you've worked hard to organise vanish, and with very little notice. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is disheartening to see teams at a school where 58 percent of its students are female not have enough players to have substitutes on the bench.
  • Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I dont know if I'm sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I'm a bit on my own and thats a very disheartening feeling. Drew Barrymore 
  • How disheartening to be so rebuffed from her dream guy. Christianity Today
  • Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma. Joseph Joubert 
  • The ferment excited those pedagogical leaders who agreed with its direction, but it was disheartening for those teachers and parents who wanted schools and classrooms where the adults were in charge.
  • It's a bit disheartening because I have all these wonderful new roles. Times, Sunday Times
  • Few things are more disheartening than watching arrangements you've carefully nurtured come apart. Times, Sunday Times
  • One of the most disheartening things was to go into that prison and see a massive carpentry shop - fully equipped and fully tooled - empty.
  • It is so disheartening to hear inexcusable statements such as ‘I regret killing her’.
  • They rejoiced in the change, not merely from sympathy with the disinthralled negroes, but because it had emancipated them from a disheartening surveillance, and opened new fields of usefulness. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
  • It is very disheartening to read all these admonitions to this nascent antiwar movement saying that the participants are somehow being unserious.
  • His friend overlooks her disheartening daily experience because she is transfixed by the status and desirability of her job. Times, Sunday Times
  • I found it a really disheartening process. Times, Sunday Times
  • The Golden Bears had lost to Arizona and Southern California in disheartening fashion before beating rival Stanford and then the Aggies USATODAY.com
  • I found it a really disheartening process. Times, Sunday Times
  • But what was more disheartening than watching a defense that a lot of people, myself included, believed had shown signs of evolving into a championship caliber unit, be picked apart like a beignet was the Patriots downright un-Patriotic play in all three phrases of the game, from poor throws to busted coverages to missed field goals. Boston.com Most Popular
  • Few things are more disheartening than seeing plans or ideas that are dear to your heart being challenged, if not demolished. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's disheartening that the Prime Minister's thoughts don't necessarily mesh with her political reality.
  • One hears the disheartening sound of doors closing and catches a waft of stale air. Times, Sunday Times
  • You know, when a general uses the word disheartening in a time of war, that is something to pay attention to. CNN Transcript Oct 20, 2006
  • It is disheartening and I'm sure there are many more people that are 'gatvol' of government just sitting back with their exorbitant salaries and letting these strikers be. News24 Top Stories
  • Of course we're not really post-painting any more than we're post-feminist ― both ideas as disheartening as they are offensive. Lily Blau: The Cow of Art
  • Indecision is the most unsexy thing on the planet. I dont know if I'm sexy but I think decisiveness is sexy. I also lose trust and faith in them when I realise I'm a bit on my own and thats a very disheartening feeling. Drew Barrymore 
  • What became clear was just how many brides found it disheartening. The Sun
  • It is disheartening for a veracious researcher to debunk this Caspian megalomania.
  • There is scope to improve its sourcing - it is slightly disheartening to see that it is purchasing such staples as eggs from Italy. Times, Sunday Times
  • I find it somewhat disheartening that an academic defends Beck, et. al., as not as bad as they couldbe. The Volokh Conspiracy » In (Limited) Praise of Right-Wing Populism
  • It's really disheartening to realize where we could be in spaceflight versus where we are. Tuesday Ted: George Dyson
  • This was not technically a route - on most maps it was either unmarked or dishearteningly categorized as 'unsurveyed'. The Times Literary Supplement
  • What's really disheartening is that the Times feels the need to explain to their readers why their decision to cancel Ann Coulter isn't evidence of some grand liberal bias or conspiracy on their part. Archive 2007-03-01
  • I find it very disheartening. The Sun
  • It's somewhat disheartening that the FemBots' cast-offs earn them more money than their actual records, but MacKinnon and Poirier don't seem to mind, because they know they've just made one beaut of an album.

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