chagrin

Example Sentences

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To the chagrin of professionals, many people lean on popular AI chatbots to help solve their medical mysteries, interpret labs and provide psychological therapy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

Much to Beijing's chagrin, those running many such scam centres are often Chinese themselves.

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

Others decorate mantelpieces, bookshelves and walls with their plastic builds, often to spouses’ chagrin.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

And as many homeowners have found to their chagrin, plumbing works silently in the background—until it doesn’t, with messy and even catastrophic aftereffects.

From Barron's • Oct. 24, 2025

I felt his eyes on my face but I couldn’t look at him yet, afraid he might read the chagrin in my eyes.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer