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
He locked up his tires on a pit stop 25 laps from the end, was forced to make a drive-through penalty for the mistake and saw his milk-splashed dreams end in disappointment.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 18, 2022
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
Do not let me raise hopes, my friend, that must end in disappointment.
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon
