Example Sentences

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Sometimes, when Ilaria Urbinati gets stuck in Los Angeles traffic, she’ll look out of her car window at some anonymous guy on the street dressed in a baggy suit; and she will despair.

From Washington Post • Feb. 20, 2019

The cheaters will despair; relationships will end; children’s lives could be affected for the worse.

From The Verge • Aug. 19, 2015

I can’t be the only American who will despair at the relevance of those words in 2015.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2015

Some will rejoice in today’s decision, and some will despair at it; that is the nature of a controversy that matters so much to so many.

From Time • Jun. 27, 2013

She will not be as beautiful as you imagine, and then you will despair.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss