despair

Example Sentences

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"I lived between despair and hope that my daughter might still be alive," she explained.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

As fall semester began, panic and then despair set in.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

You have avoided great depths of despair and panic, and even greater heights of self-congratulation and ecstasy.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 19, 2026

It’s far easier to sit in the boiling waters of despair until the heat becomes tolerable than it is to try to alter the temperature all on our own.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026

Wild, in charge, would not let them fall into helplessness and despair; that would have been the same as admitting they were doomed.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong