Dismayed Sentence Examples

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  • They looked at each other with dismayed and embarrassed faces.

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  • Dismayed, she shuddered from cold and fear.

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  • The Confederates, not dismayed thereby, effected their junction and moved on Corinth, which was defended by Rosecrans and 23,000 Federal troops.

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  • Do not be dismayed if your first offer is rejected.

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  • Natasha was evidently dismayed at the thought of what he might think she had meant.

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  • Then suddenly, dismayed lest he had said too much, Petya stopped and blushed.

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  • Iggy looked around, dismayed.

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  • Gabriel stared, surprised, then dismayed, at her conditions.

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  • Lana said nothing, dismayed.

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  • She listened, dismayed but also interested in someone interpreting the insanity of her mind in a way she could grasp.

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  • Lana closed the door behind her and looked around, dismayed.

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  • But now he was dismayed by the progress of the Revolution.

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  • She was all a-babble over Shipton's fall and dismayed that she couldn't find her sister.

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  • Dismayed by the amount of fallen bodies wearing Tiyan's colors, Taran overlooked the messenger from the north the first time until he'd reached the walls.

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  • Recently, Mexican farmers were dismayed to find their indigenous landraces widely contaminated by genetically modified corn.

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  • As I have been unwell as long as I can remember, I was a little bit dismayed by this.

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  • Of those who had known me as an innocent child some were utterly dismayed.

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  • After unpacking it and getting to work I was somewhat dismayed at have a wizard sort everything for me.

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  • Thus one reform led to another; but Peter was not dismayed by the magnitude of the task, and worked vigorously in all departments with a sublime disregard for the clamour of reactionary opponents and for the feelings and prejudices of his subjects in general.

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  • In contrast, administrators, parents, and educators who are affiliated with the schools on the list may be dismayed.

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  • The grape glut is a real issue and many producers are dismayed at seeing prices drop.

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  • Many homeowners were dismayed to find that their homes depreciated sharply during the foreclosure crisis around 2008.

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  • She was trying to wear a pair of cream colored slacks, only to be dismayed by the sight of unsightly panty lines.

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  • I really wanted her marriage to Thorne to work, I was dismayed when that ended with her confiding in Deacon that her soul mate was and always would be Ridge.

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  • This creative and necessary idea popped into her head when she tried to wear a cream colored pair of slacks, only to be dismayed by atrocious and unseemly panty lines.

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  • Many original series Trekkers were dismayed, and vowed to have nothing to do with the new series.

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  • That said, plenty of fans were dismayed by the introduction of 'midichlorians' into the Star Wars mythos.

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  • Yully listened, dismayed by the lies stacking up on top of one another.

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  • Romas leaned back and snatched the kitten trotting toward her, and Evelyn rose to her knees, looking both surprised and dismayed.

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  • A list of shoulda-coulda-wouldas went through her mind, growing until she was dismayed.

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  • Returning full of hope from Pietra Santa, Savonarola might well have been dismayed by the distracted state of public affairs.

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  • His men, however, apparently dismayed at the growing prestige of the enemy, did not support him, and he was defeated and probably slain.

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  • These exploits dismayed his opponents and kindled the enthusiasm of his friends.

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  • She tested her body, dismayed when her limbs felt too heavy to lift.

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  • Jenn gasped, dismayed, as the wall around the orchard came into view.

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  • Assassins were sent to kill him in his cell; but awed, it is said, by Savonarola's words and demeanour they fled dismayed from his presence.

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  • Not only were they dismayed by the novelty of the sophistical teaching, but also they vaguely perceived that it was subversive of authority, of the authority of the parent over the child as well as of the authority of the state over the citizen.

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  • Despite the warning letters of the British cabinet which, dismayed at the long continuance of the American War, counselled caution on a question in which England had no immediate interest, Castlereagh yielded no inch of his ground.

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  • He could not pursue; the whereabouts of his right was unknown, and after the battle his best officers felt rather dismayed than encouraged by the conspicuous lack of discipline.

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