DEJECTED in a Sentence

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As Ahab now glided from the dejected Delight, the strange life-buoy hanging at the Pequod's stern came into conspicuous relief.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEJECTED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
dejected
 a.  being in low spirits; depressed
Classic Sentence: (77 in 6 pages)
1  As Ahab now glided from the dejected Delight, the strange life-buoy hanging at the Pequod's stern came into conspicuous relief.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 131. The Pequod Meets The Delight.
2  The countenance of Hawkeye was haggard and careworn, and his air dejected, as though he felt the deepest degradation at having fallen into the power of his enemies.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15
3  While the conquered were still, sullen, and dejected, the victors triumphed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
4  Munro appeared among his silent troops firm but dejected.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
5  "I knew that you would never desert me," she said, looking up with a momentary glow on her otherwise dejected countenance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25
6  When the two youths turned with the flag they saw that much of the regiment had crumbled away, and the dejected remnant was coming slowly back.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
7  The women involuntarily drew in their breath, and the whole gang sat with downcast, dejected faces.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
8  The atheistic taunts of his cruel master sunk his before dejected soul to the lowest ebb; and, though the hand of faith still held to the eternal rock, it was a numb, despairing grasp.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  The poor fellows looked dejected, and walked off in silence.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
10  He was forever busy, and the only check to his enjoyments was my sorrowful and dejected mind.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
11  I was quite as dejected on the first working-day of my apprenticeship as in that after-time; but I am glad to know that I never breathed a murmur to Joe while my indentures lasted.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XIV
12  I was greatly dejected and distressed, but in an incoherent wholesale sort of way.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
13  We went to bed greatly dejected.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2. I OBSERVE
14  I was crying all the time, but, except that I was conscious of being cold and dejected, I am sure I never thought why I cried.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4. I FALL INTO DISGRACE
15  I am terribly dejected for about a week or two.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
Example Sentence:
1  Feeling dejected over having driven 3 hours for nothing I pulled the decoy and started walking up the ridge to leave.