Use disappointment in a sentence
Sentences starting with disappointment
- Disappointment is its own reason for its pain: the quality or dignity of the hope that failed is a matter aside. [5]
- Disappointment is a more common pain, for which less powerful remedies will suffice. [10]
- Disappointment was hardly a strong enough word to describe the circumstances. [5]
Sentences ending with disappointment
- We must conceal your wish, to save Nitetis and Atossa from a possible disappointment. [10]
- Ledscha had listened with increasing disappointment. [10]
- But Susan Posey was more than a consoler,--she was an angel to him in this time of his disappointment. [6]
- If we listen to the still, small voice of realism, intense longing is always followed by disappointment. [9]
- The soldiers wanted to attack, but had to suffer disappointment. [5]
- A shadow blurred the sunlight in Nancy's face --there was uneasiness in it, and disappointment. [5]
- To all this, the single gentleman listened with the air of a man quite borne down by grief and disappointment. [12]
- I can bear the disappointment. [4]
- The damage from the current exaggeration of equality is that the attempt to realize the dogma in fact--and the attempt is everywhere on foot--can lead only to mischief and disappointment. [4]
- It was said that ordinarily the captain would have made a safe offing and waited for the morning; but this was no ordinary occasion; all about him were appealing faces, faces pathetic with disappointment. [5]
Short sentences using disappointment
- Nevertheless, his disappointment was keen. [9]
- It was a sharp disappointment. [5]
- It was a great disappointment. [5]
- It is a great disappointment. [5]
- Much to my disappointment, Mr. [9]
- We had another disappointment afterward. [5]
- Benares was not a disappointment. [5]
- Disappointment! [5]
Sentences containing disappointment two or more times
- My marriage had been a disappointment, though I strove to conceal this from myself; a disappointment because it had not filled the requirements of my category--excitement and mystery: I had provided the setting and lacked the happiness. [9]
- You would perhaps be only preparing a disappointment for yourselves, and, as a consequence of your disappointment, mortification to me. [7]
- Wherever he attempted anything, disappointment followed disappointment. [10]
More example sentences with the word disappointment in them
- I'm getting old, you know, and any little disappointment makes me want to cry. [5]
- That movement being without result, with a shade of disappointment on his face, he felt in his left vest pocket. [5]
- She had gone without repeating that dinner-invitation--an almost unendurable disappointment to him. [5]
- Were the tears which filled Eva's eyes caused by the smoke that poured from the fire more and more densely into the street, or to disappointment and bitter anguish? [10]
- I was told what became of him, but as it was a disappointment to me, I will not enter into details. [5]
- Of course we were glad to see them and have them report all well; but still it was a bitter disappointment to us all. [5]
- In the morning we both awoke and leaped out of bed at the same instant and ran and stripped aside the window-curtains; but we suffered a bitter disappointment again: it was already half past three in the afternoon. [5]
- The first shock was so great that Mrs. Abner Reed cried in the privacy of her chamber, and the Widow Crane confessed her disappointment to the confiding ear of her bosom friend, Mrs. Merrill. [9]
- In Paris Margaret was ill--very ill; and this misfortune caused for a time a revival of all the old affection, in sympathy with a disappointment which awoke in our womankind all the tenderness of their natures. [4]
- After hearing what was being said by one or other of these groups he generally turned away with an air of disappointment, as though they were not speaking of anything he wished to hear. [2]
- A common and very simple reason for this disappointment is that most of us overrate our capacity. [6]
- Alice, who discerned very clearly Mrs. Mavick and her ambition, was troubled by Philip's absorption and the cruel disappointment in store for him. [4]
- The thing stamped upon his face and burning in his eyes was not world-weariness, disappointment, despair. [9]
- While anxiety and trouble were brooding over the steward's dwelling, while dismay and disappointment were clouding the souls of its inhabitants, the hall of the Muses was merry with feasting and laughter. [10]
- Then I returned to my mine, fortifying myself against possible disappointment, but my fears were groundless--the shining scales were still there. [5]
- He was sick to death--not with illness alone, but with disappointment and broken hopes and a burden beyond the powers of any one man. [11]
- People are apt to conceive, or at least to profess, exaggerated expectation, such as no performance can realise; then ensue disappointment and the due revenge, detraction, and failure. [14]
- He was inclined to attribute the depression through which he had passed, the disappointment he had undergone as a just punishment for an overabundance of ego,--only Hodder used the theological term for the same sin. [9]
- I felt that the story of his life must be a sad one--a story of suffering, disappointment, and exile--a story of man's inhumanity to man in some shape or other--and I longed to persuade the secret from him. [5]
- To my disappointment, the room was darkened. [6]
- Quilp plainly discerned that there was some secret reason for this visit and his uncommon disappointment, and, in the hope that there might be means of mischief lurking beneath it, resolved to worm it out. [12]
- She wanted to tell Philip all the feelings that possessed her; but how dared she write just what she felt: love and bitterness, joy and indignation, exaltation and disappointment, all in one? [11]
- It was a surprise to me, and a disappointment. [5]
- She also was sure that when the first flush of his anger and disappointment had passed, and he came to view this thing with cooler mind, he would repent deeply--for a whole lifetime. [11]
- But life is such a web of wretchedness and disappointment, that I agree with your philosopher Solon in thinking those fortunate to whom, as in former days to Kleobis and Biton, the gods decree an early death. [10]
- Close before the success of which I dreamed failure and bitter disappointment. [10]
- Every movement was subdued; anxious, nay, fearful expectation was written on many faces, and on others impatience and disappointment. [10]
- Weighed down by sorrow and disappointment, he died before I was born--six thousand brief summers before I was born. [5]
- Pyramus attributed her sometimes depressed, sometimes irritable manner to the disappointment of her wish. [10]
- If she expected some little need of admiration from Lassiter, she had no cause for disappointment. [13]
- That which means so much to me, the writer, might be a disappointment, or at least a puzzle, to you, the listener. [6]
- In these months she could not quite be sure, and she tried to shut her eyes when the little pieces fell off, to remind herself that she must make allowances for the severity of his disappointment. [9]
- She had a sense of bitter disappointment in him--or was it a deep hurt?--that she had not made him love her, truly love her. [11]
- He swept the room with a glance, and I thought a shade of disappointment passed over his face. [9]
- Mr. and Mrs. Rogers interested themselves most liberally in Helen Keller's fortune, and certainly no one can say that any of those who contributed to her success ever had reason for disappointment. [5]
- Hope had now risen supreme in her heart over grief and disappointment. [10]
- He did not rise, and although she acknowledged to herself a feeling of disappointment, she gave him credit for a nice comprehension of the situation. [9]
- Gladly had she rested on his breast to enjoy one brief moment of the greatest bliss; but how quickly had bitter disappointment expelled joy! [10]
- So the first question he addressed to Gras concerned the Tennis goldsmith, and it was a keen disappointment to Hermon when he learned that the earliest time he could expect to see him would be the following day. [10]
- The look of prospective disappointment in the good woman's face decided Victoria. [9]
- One thing seemed plain: we must start down the river the next day, if people who could not be deceived were going to crop up at this rate: an unpalatable disappointment, for we had hoped to have a week in St. Louis. [5]
- Then followed another period of heartrending disappointment. [9]
- Although they never, perhaps, would quite recover the disappointment concerning Lady Agnes Martling, the result was so much better than they in their cheerfulest moments dared hope for, that they appeared genuinely content. [11]
- In every town people sought out the list of their friends and acquaintances, and turned away in disappointment. [14]
- There was a pause, then a several-barreled sigh of disappointment. [5]
- But he'll get over the disappointment. [5]
- She was the only person to whom he could confide what disappointment this interview had caused him. [10]
- He who listens once to that song hears it always in his ears, through disappointment and success--and the success is often the greatest disappointment--through poverty and hope deferred and heart-sickness for recognition, through the hot time of youth and the creeping incapacity of old age. [4]
- When he sent off the finished drawing he avoided taking his mother into his confidence in order to protect her from disappointment. [10]
- How these hours of uninterrupted intellectual enjoyment, so tranquil and independent, repay one for the ennui and disappointment too often experienced in the intercourse of society! [4]
- But the magic of the moonlight is a vanity and a fraud; and whoso putteth his trust in it shall suffer sorrow and disappointment. [5]
- This has something of the flavor of the man we were to know later; the quaint, gentle resignation to disappointment which is one of the finest touches in his humor. [5]
- Throughout the whole of my journey I had found reason to exclaim against it for depriving me of some valuable curiosity or celebrated monument, but this was the severest disappointment it had yet occasioned. [4]
- Gwendolen was ashamed of herself for allowing her disappointment to so depress her spirits and make her so strangely and profoundly miserable; but feeling ashamed of herself didn't improve the matter any; it only seemed to aggravate the suffering. [5]
- Reuben, the husband of her sorrowful ward whom fear of disappointment still deterred from yielding to his newly-awakened hopes, was a quiet, reticent man, so the first messenger did not know whether he was among the liberated prisoners. [10]
- A curious shade of disappointment came into her face when she saw who it was. [11]
- But I had not gone a dozen paces in my disappointment when I heard him running after me, asking if my honour were Mr. Richard Carvel. [9]
- Still, he could not forget her wistfulness when his wife and he were looking at them, and her disappointment when they decided against them. [8]
- Ian, I could not bear to see what would come at last--the disappointment in your face the look of hope gone from your eyes; your struggle to climb, and the struggle of no avail. [11]
- But it was not a disappointment, for I knew Mrs. le Fay by reputation, and was not expecting anything pleasant. [5]
- Then, neither hunger, nor thirst, nor fatigue, nor deferred hope, nor monotonous disappointment, nor leaden-footed lapse of time can conquer the hunter's patience or weaken the joy of his quest or cool the splendid rage of his desire. [5]
- A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even. [5]
- His heart had never throbbed faster or with more joyous anticipation than on the nocturnal ride which led him to his father and the woman he loved, and on reaching his goal, instead of the utmost happiness, he now found only bitter disappointment. [10]
- The family had never shown him so much affection before; they all seemed to think his disappointment of more importance than their own misfortune. [5]
- Nor was it much better when gradually the day became one of Great Expectations, and the sweet spirit of it was quenched in worry or soured in disappointment. [4]
- They waited till morning and sailed cautiously in to face disappointment. [11]
- Barbara spent the month of October in depression caused by this fresh disappointment, but it, too, passed without bringing her any satisfaction. [10]
- It is a long time ago--thirty-two years--and it doesn't matter now, yet one is sorry for their disappointment. [5]
- Memories which had long since paled in his soul, oppressed by suffering and disappointment, regained their vanished forms and colours, and for the first time in many months a smile hovered upon his lips. [10]
- Janet did not like to acknowledge to herself her disappointment on learning that Ditmar had gone to Boston. [9]
- Oh, this is like all my life--failure, disappointment, misery--always misery, always failure. [5]
- Presently we followed, leaving the pack of toadies in sad disappointment below. [9]
- There were many ladies on the floor (such being the chivalrous custom when a debate or a speech of the importance of Mr. Crewe's was going on), but Austen swept them with a glance of disappointment. [9]
- But, good neighbors, kind friends, I desire that you will not increase, by talk, a disappointment which you cannot assuage. [4]
- It was with keen disappointment that she read his note of regret. [9]
- Thus life, until its end--perhaps wholly unexpectedly--arrived within a brief season, offered him nothing save suffering and sacrifice, disappointment, toil, and anxieties. [10]
- There you have it: the measure of the magnitude of a dream-failure is the measure of the disappointment the failure cost the dreamer; the value, in others' eyes, of the thing lost, has nothing to do with the matter. [5]
- For a time it was hoped that the two quarter-boats would presently be heard of, but this hope suffered disappointment. [5]
- When it came it brought disappointment, of course. [5]
- But my heart is heavy with this disappointment. [5]
- Such a letter in the early days of the type-machine would have saved him a great sum in money and years of disappointment. [5]
- What disappointment was in store for them; what new suffering was laid upon them when, instead of the rosy dawn of freedom which they fancied they had seen, a deeper darkness and a more reckless oppression set in! [10]
- It had nothing in store for her but humiliation and disappointment, arrows which, sent from the prison, pierced her to the heart, and a torturing fear which never gave her any peace, day or night. [10]
- As long as I could remember her face had been one that revealed a life's disappointment. [9]
- By walking fast I could reach Salisbury Street, near St. Mary's Seminary for Young Ladies, in time to catch her, but even then for many days I was doomed to disappointment. [9]
- It was then I began to descend toward the valley of disappointment and sorrow; it was then I cast my little bark upon a mysterious ocean of wedlock, with him who then smiled and caressed me, but, alas! [5]
- In that measure, however, he was doomed to disappointment. [13]
- Here the chivalrous host were doomed to surprise and disappointment greater than the most hopeless of them was prepared to meet. [10]
- Germain Boily, the horse-trainer, fresh from his disappointment with the widow Plomondon, had driven his tamed moose up to the Trois Couronnes, and had drunk enough whiskey to make him ill-tempered. [11]
- Tom went about, hoping against hope for the sight of one blessed sinful face, but disappointment crossed him everywhere. [5]
- His poor and honest neighbor, whom he has wronged and defrauded, lives in misery, and dies in disappointment and penury. [4]
- I shall feel his disappointment as much as my own bad luck. [5]
- When he regained his composure he saw, with a shade of disappointment, that Barbara's eyes had remained dry during the description of an event in which he himself and so many stronger men had shed burning tears. [10]
- The disappointment made him irritable and listless, when Galenus had succeeded in curing me so far that I was able to throw away my Crutch; and my limp--at least so they tell me--is hardly perceptible. [10]
- No interview with him as yet had encouraged this expectation, but a mother's heart easily sees, even in disappointment, a step which leads to a new hope. [10]
- We spurred up hill after hill, and usually began to stretch our necks minutes before we got to the top--but disappointment always followed:--more stupid hills beyond--more unsightly landscape--no Holy City. [5]
- I tried to hide my disappointment, but I suppose I did not succeed. [5]
- Here Paula interrupted her, crying in joyful excitement: "And why should not something besides disappointment be my portion for once? [10]
- The sight of her would set his stagnant blood leaping; the sight of her-- But it was a disappointment. [5]
- It seemed to her that everybody knew about her disappointment and was laughing at her and pitying her. [2]
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