dejected

Example Sentences

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Embassy in Bujumbura, Burundi, she watched anxiously as applicant after applicant left dejected.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

After that it was all the American, who reeled off 10 straight games as Medvedev imploded, cutting a dejected figure.

From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026

SEOUL—After the last whistle blew at the youth women’s World Cup final in November, the Netherlands coach sounded dejected.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

"At a time when we should be connected, we find ourselves alone, down, dejected," Lindsay Foreman wrote in a poem entitled A Sad Voice From Evin Prison - A Christmas Poem.

From BBC • Dec. 22, 2025

Laika curled up, dejected, and shivered away from me to a corner of the living room, watching, watching.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith