Example Sentences

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It is dismaying that when a cougar kills livestock that the solution is to kill the cougar.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2023

“It is dismaying that so many of them have been forgotten.”

From New York Times • Mar. 3, 2023

Though it is dismaying to learn you've been dropped from a physician's practice because a few years have passed since your last visit, the approach isn't uncommon.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2022

“The silence from leaders and corporations when it comes to Kanye or antisemitism in general is dismaying but not surprising,” the MRC statement read.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2022

But to do no wickedness will contribute nothing to our assurance; for it is not suffering unjustly but suffering in itself that is dismaying.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch