Example Sentences

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Decades of this have disillusioned the working and middle classes into expecting nothing can or will change, that it’s every man, woman and child for themselves.

From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026

These impediments may well have disillusioned some of the voters who backed Move Forward three years ago.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

Sidestepping the fight in the Senate, he said, would have disillusioned even more Democratic voters — “particularly our core constituencies,” he said.

From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2022

These revelations have disillusioned many Baltimoreans who had previously opposed any interference with the sin strip.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is their own papers that have disillusioned me.

From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)