DISAPPOINTED in a Sentence

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Even though he was disappointed by the size of the bonus he was offered, he did not think it politic to refuse it.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISAPPOINTED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
disappointed
 a.  disappointingly unsuccessful
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She looked impatiently down the road again, and again she was disappointed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  Gerald was disappointed, for he had wanted a son, but he nevertheless was pleased enough over his small black-haired daughter to serve rum to every slave at Tara and to get roaringly, happily drunk himself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  "I am disappointed in you," he said.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  Scarlett had made her plans to spend Christmas at Tara, but after Ashley's telegram came no power on earth, not even a direct command from the disappointed Ellen, could drag her away from Atlanta.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  I thought you were a sensible person and I'm disappointed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  At first Scarlett was shocked and disappointed that Ashley did not immediately take hold and make the mill pay double what it had paid under her management.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  He was hurt and disappointed that motherhood had not changed Scarlett as he had hoped it would but, if she was determined to go back to her damnable mills, then Archie was a godsend.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
8  She was not in the least alarmed or distressed that Sam had committed murder, but she was disappointed that she could not have him as a driver.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
9  But he drew back and she was faintly disappointed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
10  Scarlett trailed after him, somewhat at a loss, a trifle disappointed as at an unexpected anticlimax.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
11  But his box contained only a line of rapturous assent from Gerty, and he was turning away disappointed when he was hailed by a voice from the smoking room.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14
12  She was disappointed by his devotion to making money, but she was sure that he did not lie to patients, and that he did keep up with the medical magazines.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  But the advocate of freedom in marriage was as much disappointed as a drooping bride at the alacrity with which he took that freedom and escaped to the world of men's affairs.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  The Jolly Seventeen looked disappointed, but the Jolly Seventeen liked to give advice, the Jolly Seventeen liked to mention the expensive hotels at which they had stayed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
15  When Carol saw him with his uniform off, in a pepper-and salt suit and a new gray felt hat, she was disappointed.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
16  Even though he was disappointed by the size of the bonus he was offered, he did not think it politic to refuse it.
17  Senator John McCain said he was disappointed, but added that the rule changes do represent significant progress.
18  The audience was so disappointed in the play that many did not remain to hear the epilogue.
19  And then she would pout like a disappointed child; a pensive cloud would soften her radiant vivacity; she would withdraw her hand hastily from his, and turn in transient petulance from his aspect, at once so heroic and so martyr-like.
20  Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
21  He was disappointed in the litter because the puppies were brindled, he had hoped for animals of a uniform color.
22  We were disappointed by the lackluster performance.
23  Animal welfare groups in Australia and Thailand are exceptionally disappointed with this decision.
24  The New York Times' A.O. Scott thinks it's "hard to imagine that (Nolan's) fans -- who represent a fairly large segment of the world's population -- will be disappointed by 'Interstellar.'"
25  We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
26  He found it difficult to hide his disappointment when she didn't arrive.
27  Book early for the show to avoid disappointment.
28  Despite winning the title, their last campaign ended in great disappointment.
29  Everything happens for the best, my mother said whenever I faced disappointment.
30  The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire, the size of your dream, and how you handle disappointment along the way.