DEPRESSED in a Sentence

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Strictly speaking, this horn is but a lengthened tusk, growing out from the jaw in a line a little depressed from the horizontal.

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 Meanings and Examples of DEPRESSED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
depressed
 a.  sad; gloomy; low in spirits; dejected
Classic Sentence: (126 in 9 pages)
1  The dim room with towering walls completely filled with dark books depressed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Large numbers of books always depressed her, as did people who liked to read large numbers of books.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  It bewildered and depressed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Besides, the tone of the letter vaguely depressed her with its foolish talk of defeat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
5  Captain Carey Ashburn's useless arm was hurting him again and moreover he was depressed by the thought that his courtship of Scarlett was at a standstill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  But happy or depressed, she was too thin, too white.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  The whole darkening room depressed her and, going to the window, she raised the sash, unlatched the shutters and let the last light of the wintry sunset into the room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  Once she had known practically everyone in Atlanta and the sight of so many strange names depressed her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
9  Thus barred from him, depressed in the thought of Fern, Carol was suddenly and for the first time convinced that she loved Erik.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  After that she could be irritated but she could not be depressed by Aunt Bessie's simoom of questioning.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
11  Strictly speaking, this horn is but a lengthened tusk, growing out from the jaw in a line a little depressed from the horizontal.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
12  If he, as he said, 'forgot himself' and swore before grandmother, he went about depressed and shamefaced all day.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: IX
13  For some reason she felt depressed, almost unhappy.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVI
14  Edna felt depressed rather than soothed after leaving them.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
15  The murky, lowering sky, which had depressed her a few hours before, seemed bracing and invigorating as she splashed through the streets on her way home.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXVI
Example Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
16  The defendant was depressed and therefore not fully responsible for her own actions.
17  She became severely depressed after her mother's death.
18  He received a depressed skull fracture and a brain laceration from the collision.
19  The market is rather depressed at the moment.
20  Nothing depressed Sue for long; her natural effervescence soon reasserted itself.
21  Glaxo was accused of not publicizing the results of tests on one of its anti-depressants, which indicated that the drug might increase the suicidal tendencies in some depressed children who took it.
22  Creative activity serves as an effective antidote to depression.
23  A depression usually brings bad weather.
24  The symptoms of depression can include poor appetite and weight loss.
25  Decisions on their own depression and self-assertion perk this is a woman.
26  Periods of depression alternate with excited behavior.
27  He committed suicide during a fit of depression.
28  The onset of depression often follows a traumatic event.
29  It seems important to sensitize people to the fact that depression is more than the blues.
30  She had been receiving medical treatment for depression.