Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Some traditionalists, like former Washington Post editor Marty Baron, have despaired over some of these changes.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2024

Device users have despaired over the difficulty of getting a replacement device or have bristled at deliveries of reconditioned models, which the company said account for about half of the replacements.

From New York Times • Nov. 15, 2022

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

My dear Miss Lydia, By now you have despaired of me and decided that I am a man who does not honor his word.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson