despairingly
Example Sentences
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“You’ve quarreled with everyone,” Wilde’s old friend Frank Harris once despairingly informed Douglas, adding that “you have the most imperious temper I’ve ever met.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
One day, she added, despairingly, “This is rough.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 9, 2022
“The Egyptians live in the Republic of False Truths,” she writes despairingly to her lover and fellow protester.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
She tried to help a frustrated kindergartner learn how to read and watched despairingly as the kids watched cartoons on their tablets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2021
“But I’ve already been to the clinic four times,” my mother said despairingly.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
