despair

Example Sentences

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Teachers interviewed for the report described deep despair among families.

From Science Daily

The sentiments were more hopeful than one might expect, given how it’s so easy to succumb to despair right now.

From Los Angeles Times

The care of relative strangers lifting up Grainier from the pit of despair.

From Los Angeles Times

Their despair is compounded by having to cancel holidays due to the pressure of a relentless conveyor belt of cases.

From BBC

It was a year that knocked me flat, tearing me apart from so many things that once anchored me, setting me afloat in a sea of guilt and despair and ultimate uncertainty.

From Los Angeles Times