Example Sentences

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But even if we consider just that one category, the news is dismayingly grim.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2024

Eli provides Afi with a flat in Accra where, dismayingly, she discovers she will live alone, her husband showing up only sporadically.

From Washington Post • Nov. 16, 2020

A few weeks ago I watched Antonioni’s “L’Avventura,” a landmark we said in 1960, but dismayingly prim now, with the inescapable discovery that the radiant Monica Vitti could not act very well.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2020

Two or three generations of readers have now seen the futures he envisaged in his three trilogies of novels coming dismayingly into being around them.

From The Guardian • Jan. 11, 2020

Now the first thing you are likely to realize is that space is extremely well named and rather dismayingly uneventful.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson