dejected

Example Sentences

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Embassy in Bujumbura, Burundi, she watched anxiously as applicant after applicant left dejected.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

"We're disappointed," said 64-year-old village chief Boniface Djabia, sounding dejected.

From Barron's • Jan. 26, 2026

SEOUL—After the last whistle blew at the youth women’s World Cup final in November, the Netherlands coach sounded dejected.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

“You are true competitors,” Derek’s father and head coach Tim Garcia told his dejected players minutes later.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 13, 2025

Throughout their conversation, Sticky’s expression had grown more and more dejected, his big eyes sadder and sadder, so that at last his face had taken on the exact gloomy look of that miserable man Milligan.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart