How to Use despondency in a Sentence

despondency

noun

• The car returned to the paddock and a sense of despondency set in.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 3 July 2017
• In Erbil, the KRG’s capital, the hint of spring in the air is long gone, and a certain despondency has set in.
  — The Economist, 10 Apr. 2021
• With the new year came waves of despondency pounding America, tweet by tweet, op-ed by op-ed.
  — Gil Troy, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2022
• Katie Hafner: The mood of the research team, Dora wrote, turned from elation to despondency.
  — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 31 Oct. 2024
• But Ramona has seen some kind of light and is moving on, leaving Isaac in despondency.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2017
• Last week, when the families of five victims gathered at Hussain’s house to talk about the attack, a sense of despondency filled the room.
  — Washington Post, 22 June 2021
• The hallmarks of burnout are feelings of despondency, boredom and being stuck.
  — Tracy Brower, Forbes, 27 June 2021
• Just something to give me more hope and optimism rather than despondency.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2023
• But the fight itself has been left to Ukrainians, who have expressed a mixture of courageous resolve and despondency.
  — Yuras Karmanau, ajc, 6 Mar. 2022
• Though there’s a question whether despondency isn’t his default state.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 17 Aug. 2017
• Back then, a senseless war in Afghanistan catalyzed despondency.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• A certain viewer could, of course, judge Benny for refusing to grow up, and dismiss his despondency as the self-centeredness of a child.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 July 2024
• Ultimately the day ended for the Bears with a new wave of anger, embarrassment and despondency.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2024
• Just a few days earlier, Manchin had killed the Democrats’ climate-and-tax bill for the second time, setting off Hill protests and general despondency within the Party.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
• This is further highlighted by the fact that both waves of increased death and despondency should have brought wages up, as the workforce shrank and firms competed for a smaller pool of workers.
  — Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2020
• That doesn’t happen after Nico Williams gives Spain the lead; there is only despondency at watching England fall behind.
  — Tim Spiers, The Athletic, 15 July 2024
• The losing streak is feeding some despondency in the Democratic ranks, but some Democrats -- including Pelosi allies -- say the long-term view is more favorable.
  — John King, CNN, 25 June 2017
• On the night of the Presidential election, the twins stayed up late watching the returns, alternating between despondency and anger.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 22 May 2017
• Aloha and welcome to paradise, provided your idea of paradise is a weak mai tai to wash down a diffuse sense of festering despondency.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 11 July 2021
• Symptoms include severe mood swings and deep despondency as well as impulses that can impel a mother to harm herself or her child.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
• And so, despondency has become a mainstay of Palestinian life.
  — Dalia Hatuqa / Ramallah, Time, 13 Sep. 2019
• The anger and despondency over her failure to stop the Rohingya persecution has spread to her fellow Nobel laureates.
  — Rick Gladstone and Somini Sengupta, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2017
• That realization, though, is key to Stephen’s curdling idealism in the film, a moral collapse that Gosling gives urgency and despondency.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 May 2024
• Like the glutted inhabitants of Eden-Olympia, the characters in Crash turn to violence in an effort to relieve their despondency.
  — Becca Rothfeld, The New Republic, 14 Mar. 2018
• And yet, despite the despondency evident in this transitional phase, the record has plenty of optimism about the future.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
• Since the election, many residents say, a sense of unease and even despondency has pervaded the city — and not just because the new resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
  — Paul Schwartzman, Washington Post, 6 July 2017
• Across a region with some of the highest vaccination rates in the world, there’s a collective sense of dread, confusion, frustration and despondency.
  — Erin Allday, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 July 2021
• With four straight quarters of pretax losses overseas, there’s no shortage of despondency.
  — Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2019
• Ulman said her heritage as a Ukrainian Jew keeps her from plunging into despondency.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022
• But Starr here is it, and his expression is a combination of utter despondency and the realization that Mr. Fredricks might be genuine.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021

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