despairingly
- a word derived from despairing.
Example Sentences
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In a BBC Radio 4 podcast series exposing the scandal, The Lowball Tapes, Palombo asks despairingly, "If that's not criminal, how can I be a criminal?"
From BBC ● May 25, 2025
“Texas has produced no major writers or major books,” wrote Larry Jeff McMurtry, rather despairingly, in 2011.
From New York Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
“The Egyptians live in the Republic of False Truths,” she writes despairingly to her lover and fellow protester.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
She tried to help a frustrated kindergartner learn how to read and watched despairingly as the kids watched cartoons on their tablets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2021
Amid its devastation my mind flashed from thought to thought, despairingly in search of something left which it could rely on.
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
