despair
Example Sentences
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As wars multiply, Pope Leo’s aides aren’t despairing about the possibilities of diplomacy.
You have avoided great depths of despair and panic, and even greater heights of self-congratulation and ecstasy.
From MarketWatch
That convergence of feelings made me wonder: What kind of girl would write letters to former flames, not out of love, but out of despair?
From Los Angeles Times
There was an expression of something like despair mingled now with the worry lines in his face.
From Literature
It is the sound of a people in despair that I shall never forget: the weeping, the sobbing, the screaming and the praying.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
