How to Use dismaying in a Sentence

dismaying

adjective

• The record of American failure in the Middle East over the last two decades is long and dismaying.
  — Steven A. Cook, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020
• Even more dismaying for the Big Guy is the sudden awakening of his only child, Meghan.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2022
• While the numbers reveal a dismaying picture, the concern is much more layered than meets the eye.
  — Song Toh, Quartz, 1 Nov. 2021
• There was a dismaying incident when a barefoot African pursued the royal car while waving what appeared to be a piece of paper.
  — Moira Hodgson, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
• More dismaying was the lack of pressure on Allen from a defensive front that lost Von Miller to the Bills, along with an apparently cautious secondary that didn't make enough big plays.
  — Greg Beacham, ajc, 9 Sep. 2022
• This resonant core subject makes Wright’s myriad failures of style all the more dismaying—because they’re rooted in his concept of the main character.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 Feb. 2022
• To an almost dismaying degree, many readers saw in Jude’s abject powerlessness a reflection of their own lives.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022
• That such paralyzing division has gridlocked the Senate is a dismaying turnabout for those who have long watched Oregon politics.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 4 June 2023
• The movie’s essential hollowness is all the more dismaying for its absurdly glorious moments of pop-iconic grandeur—most of them sharpened by Gaga’s screen-commanding gestures.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• These Somebodies are seated in the audience and called onto the stage after God, unhappy with his creation, asks Death to retrieve humanity for an accounting of its dismaying conduct.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2022
• This recent period may be the most dismaying, and audience-repellant, of Oscar history.
  — Armond White, National Review, 27 Jan. 2023
• Her decision and its dismaying result unspool with both inevitability and surprise.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Jan. 2023
• Eventually, the exposure leads to problems for Currier and his experiments; and from there, the rest of the story unfolds with an inevitability that is either pleasing or dismaying, depending on your feelings about plot.
  — Claire Messud, Harper's Magazine, 17 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024