despair

Example Sentences

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Yet here we now have “The Final Score”: half a dozen gripping tales of crime and punishment, despair and redemption.

From The Wall Street Journal

Rory was devastated when his dad took his last chicken nugget at a home game of their beloved Wolverhampton Wanderers - and his despair was caught on the stadium's big screen.

From BBC

“Never despair, vinye, because life is like this wind blowing on us right now. It can change direction at any time!”

From Literature

It was also the end for his family, "who held strong against the temptation of despair".

From Barron's

But Nina soon found herself despairing, once she realized she could not leave her hiding place.

From Barron's