disconsolate

Example Sentences

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Marianne is first consumed by her own infatuation, then disconsolate when Willoughby dumps her for an heiress, and finally felled by a fever.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Fulham's players looked understandably disconsolate - and their counterparts know the feeling, having already been on the receiving end of late sucker punches themselves against Brighton, Arsenal and Liverpool this season.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025

A frustrated and disconsolate Rory McIlroy signed for a seven-over 78 as his quest to win a second Open title floundered on a wet and windy opening morning at Royal Troon.

From BBC • Jul. 18, 2024

He’d always been change-averse; when I rearranged the furniture in our Ohio family room when Aaron was about 6, he was disconsolate, wailing for days like King Lear in the storm: “Why is everything different?”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2024

He raised the hat in a gesture that took in the entire neighborhood, the ghetto with its shantytown porches, unpaved streets, and disconsolate laundry.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides