end in disappointment
Example Sentences
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Having won gold in 2012 and 2016, Jones saw her bid for a third straight Olympic triumph end in disappointment.
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2022
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
High hopes were built, most of them to end in disappointment.
From Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Wilson, F. N. (Frederick N.)
