end in disappointment

Example Sentences

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All that hope, so often fancied to go all of the way, only for it to end in disappointment.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

They’re now in the midst of six straight NL East titles, but a 2021 World Series title is the only time the postseason didn’t end in disappointment.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2023

On Wednesday, with the end of Griffin’s career in Washington a certainty, Gruden offered an elegy on the 2011 Heisman winner’s time as a Redskin, which started with enormous promise only to end in disappointment.

From Washington Post • Feb. 24, 2016

But a search for the most basic biographical information about the company’s chairman and co-founders, usually standard fare in offering documents, will end in disappointment.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2015

To seek happiness for ourselves as the chief end of life is a very unworthy purpose, and is one that can but end in disappointment.

From Heart Talks by Naylor, Charles Wesley