How to Use disillusioned in a Sentence

disillusioned

adjective

• The original kids, these rich kids, got disillusioned and began to leave.
  — Bryan Burrough, The Hive, 4 July 2017
• Todd Schlopy was on the slopes, teaching kids how to ski race, a placekicker who’d grown disillusioned with football.
  — Ben Baskin, SI.com, 17 Oct. 2017
• National will be wary that disillusioned home-buyers may turn their back on the party, thwarting its efforts to win a rare fourth term.
  — Tracy Withers, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2017
• But as the months and years of struggle wore on, most grew disillusioned with both the American mission and its methods.
  — Mark Bowden, Philly.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• Germany had just lost a war, and Spengler’s book struck a chord with disillusioned Germans looking to explain their sense of downfall.
  — James Angelos, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
• GOP lawmakers will have left them empty-handed, perhaps disillusioned.
  — Dan Balz, chicagotribune.com, 18 July 2017
• Most importantly, these apps have incentivized disillusioned users like Brown to buy into the project of salvation -- both their own and, in turn, their community's.
  — Lauren Jackson, CNN, 20 Sep. 2017
• One, a disillusioned man of the cloth, is played by Robert Forster.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 28 June 2018
• The girl’s father said the outcome of the case has left him disillusioned.
  — Dom Calicchio, Fox News, 11 June 2021
• By her late teens, she had become disillusioned with the Catholic faith.
  — New York Times, 12 Dec. 2021
• Is the road to great wealth inevitably strewn with the wounded, the disappointed, the cheated and the disillusioned?
  — Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• But the French soon grew disillusioned with their wonder drug.
  — The Conversation, 13 July 2022
• Now, the vast fan base is a bit disillusioned with their national team.
  — Patrick Brennan, Cincinnati.com, 24 Apr. 2019
• Bruce Willis plays a disillusioned cop willing to look the other way when bad guys get what's coming to them.
  — Chris Ball, cleveland.com, 1 Apr. 2018
• Claus, at the start of the film, is disillusioned and indignant and suffering from a centuries-long case of burnout.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2022
• Where Life and Fate presents a disillusioned moral hellscape, Stalingrad is a work of hope and true belief in the long march of the Soviet project.
  — Aaron Lake Smith, Harper's magazine, 24 June 2019
• Yet, for those disillusioned fans, hope is once again peeking over the horizon.
  — Greg Engle, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
• But quickly, Jiang became disillusioned with his new job -- and the purpose of the crackdown.
  — Ivan Watson, CNN, 4 Oct. 2021
• And those things left her feeling disillusioned, and spent.
  — Samantha Laine Perfas, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 2021
• The disillusioned Chani, who had fought to protect Paul from his dark destiny, is last seen alone in the dunes calling for her sandworm out of town.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2024
• Molly, who moved back to her hometown, is highly disillusioned by her six months at the CBB House.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 23 Mar. 2021
• Rather than feeling disillusioned, learn how to make a better choice next time.
  — Tribune Content Agency, oregonlive, 10 June 2021
• In the first part of this book, fifty-eight micro-fictions eulogize the figures whose lives and work are a balm for the disillusioned author.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2019
• Democrats came to see him as someone who might normalize the party with disillusioned voters in the age of Trump.
  — Marc Levy, ajc, 9 Nov. 2022
• Roshan has been left slightly disillusioned about the future of coffee shops in L.A.
  — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2021
• By then, Juvelius had fallen ill with malaria and grown disillusioned with the search.
  — Andrew Lawler, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2021
• The hero must team up with a disillusioned detective to track down his old nemesis, who has returned to threaten the city once more.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Mar. 2018
• Justin Timberlake plays our host, a young man who sleeps with a needy, disillusioned waitress, played by Kate Winslet.
  — Michael Phillips, Detroit Free Press, 14 Dec. 2017
• Previously announced Barnes’ Tim Jamieson is a disillusioned ex-cop who takes a job as the night knocker in a small town, withdrawing from the world until Luke’s plight reignites him and gives him something to believe in.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024
• Though a significant number feel disillusioned or anxious, the end of the election offers a measure of relief.
  — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024