Example Sentences

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Yet the world's inability to fund more Mosquirix shots dismays many in Africa.

From Reuters • Jul. 13, 2022

Archpriest Andriy Pinchuk, 44, the former mayor of a small agricultural village just south of the central city of Dnipro, said the hesitancy dismays many parish priests.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2022

The vanishing of the old nomadic ways dismays Li, but when she expressed this to a trader, he looked at her and asked, “Have we Kazakhs not suffered enough for you yet?”

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2021

It dismays me to see that The Post has a way to go before it achieves complete grammatical accuracy.

From Washington Post • Jun. 4, 2020

From the little he knows about Russian writers, it dismays him that his parents chose the weirdest namesake.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri