Example Sentences

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Julius Rosenwald, the president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, who used some of his fortune to champion black causes, called Trotter a “notoriety seeker, whose methods are dismaying to the conservative members of his race.”

From The New Yorker • Nov. 18, 2019

We could compare levels of mistreatment of Northern factory workers and Southern enslaved laborers and find that each group lived with hunger and injury; both findings are dismaying.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2015

For anyone who thought that the earthquake at least provided an opportunity to build a better country from the rubble, these are dismaying facts.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2011

These revelations are not so much jolting glimpses of human frailty as they are dismaying exposures of gimcrack theatrical carpentry.

From Time Magazine Archive

He admits their truth with a candor and an intelligence that are dismaying.

From The Story of a Play A Novel by Howells, William Dean