lose heart
Example Sentences
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“We have money and people hours to donate, but people lose heart if in the end they get blocked,” she said.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2022
Referencing a passage, she encouraged people to "not lose heart."
From Fox News • Aug. 18, 2021
His main advice when things go wrong is not to lose heart and to accept that learning might be slow.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2020
After the Senate confirmed Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, she tweeted to her nearly a million followers to not lose heart.
From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2018
Amy’s lecture put the matter in a new light, and for the first time it did look weak and selfish to lose heart at the first failure, and shut himself up in moody indifference.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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