have despaired
- present perfect of despair.
Example Sentences
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Some traditionalists, like former Washington Post editor Marty Baron, have despaired over some of these changes.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
I, too, have despaired of going down this written road year after year, month after month, seemingly day after day.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2022
The ghost of Mary Pickford — who banned women from wearing pantsuits at the charity soirees she allowed on her lawns — would have despaired, “Are the shades of Pickfair to be thus polluted?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2022
He seems never to have found a path, and to have despaired of finding one.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2022
I would have despaired of the hopelessness and confusion.
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
