dejection
Example Sentences
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Dejection is no stranger – Falah has at times broken into tears.
From The Guardian • Sep. 23, 2020
Dejection aside, he knows where his bread is buttered.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 17, 2015
For Coleridge, clouds were emblems of freedom, as in his ode to France—"Ye Clouds! that far above me float and pause,/ Whose pathless march no mortal may control!"—or of poetic consciousness, as in "Dejection."
From Slate • Feb. 2, 2011
Dejection turned to elation when a camera trap placed by one of the Gobi A reserve rangers near the spring where the release had been made showed that Naran had attracted four females.
From National Geographic
Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode" is headed with a stanza from "the grand old ballad of Sir Patrick Spence."
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
Vocabulary lists containing dejection
The Great Gatsby
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The Mysterious Benedict Society
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"The Open Boat" by Stephen Crane
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