Example Sentences

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Discouraging quarterly updates from Target and other retailers put investors in a selling mood, despite a report showing that U.S. retail sales remained strong last month.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2022

Discouraging rumors had tempered zebra fever in some corners of Upper Marlboro.

From Washington Post • Oct. 15, 2021

Discouraging public worship, warned Metropolitan Longin, a senior churchman in Saratov, a region in southwestern Russia, only revived painful memories of Soviet-era repression.

From New York Times • May 5, 2020

Nunes, who last year cosponsored legislation titled the Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act, has a hard road ahead to winning the suit.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2019

Discouraging as was this prospect, we had the consolation to know that our store of provision was sufficiently ample to allow of a few days' detention.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John