disconsolately

Example Sentences

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When Desire Doue walked off slowly and disconsolately after only 64 minutes at Arsenal in October, the teenager touted as French football's next golden boy looked alone and out of his depth.

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2025

He added, disconsolately, that a restoration of the property had been “nearly complete.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 12, 2025

The sculpture of an angel with his shoulders slumped and head hanging disconsolately is especially poignant because its creator, Roman Shustrov, himself died of the virus in May 2020.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 29, 2021

Valadon’s son slumps over disconsolately; her elderly mother stares passively; her tall young lover earnestly occupies his corner; while Valadon herself looks out warily, her mind somewhere else.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2021

I went home and sat disconsolately in my back room, hating myself, wondering where I could find another job.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright