DISAPPOINTMENT in a Sentence

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Some dangers are real and obvious; others are slow, insidious, frustrating hope, and causing keen disappointment.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISAPPOINTMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
disappointment
 n.  feeling of dissatisfaction
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Holmes had taken out his watch, and as minute followed minute without result, an expression of the utmost chagrin and disappointment appeared upon his features.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
2  On the ledge of rock above this strange couple there stood three solemn buzzards, who, at the sight of the new comers uttered raucous screams of disappointment and flapped sullenly away.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
3  Last year, such a disappointment.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
4  He looked at her with some disappointment in his face, but with a respectful and patient conviction that she must be right in whatever she did.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X
5  He was silent for a moment; and then proceeded with a more self-possessed air, though with traces of vexation and disappointment that would not be polished out.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
6  Nothing could be so gratifying to me as to hear your opinion of it," was his answer; "but I fear there would be some disappointment: you would not find it equal to your present ideas.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  To own the truth, Henry and I were partly driven out this very evening by a disappointment about a green goose, which he could not get the better of.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  In this quarter, indeed, disappointment was impending over Sir Thomas.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
9  To call or to fancy it a loss, a disappointment, would be a presumption for which she had not words strong enough to satisfy her own humility.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
10  It is the regret and disappointment of a sister, who thinks her brother has a right to everything he may wish for, at the first moment.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
11  So her poor dear sister Price was left to all the disappointment of her missing such an opportunity, and another twenty years' absence, perhaps, begun.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
12  Before the week ended, it was all disappointment.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
13  Her disappointment in her mother was greater: there she had hoped much, and found almost nothing.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
14  Fanny thought exactly the same; and they were also quite agreed in their opinion of the lasting effect, the indelible impression, which such a disappointment must make on his mind.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
15  He was suffering from disappointment and regret, grieving over what was, and wishing for what could never be.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
16  No matter what type of ice cream I try, the vanilla is always a disappointment.
17  But to her great disappointment it was empty.
18  The number of people staying away from the polls in new member states like Poland and Slovakia was a source of deep disappointment for officials in Brussels.
19  I watched her for nearly half-an-hour: during all that time she never turned a page, and her face grew moment darker, more dissatisfied, and more sourly expressive of disappointment.
20  Some dangers are real and obvious; others are slow, insidious, frustrating hope, and causing keen disappointment.
21  Corsica's narrow rejection of the new regional assembly is a bitter disappointment, especially for the French interior minister Nicholas Sarkozy, who'd campaigned hard for change.
22  She had a great laugh, but she also was full of anger, disappointment, and obsessions she only dimly understood.
23  I wasn't just disappointed, I was absolutely shattered.
24  Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
25  Among the clouds in the water, disappointed this fish is sent.
26  The brevity of the concert disappointed the audience.
27  Don't be disappointed on the journey of life.
28  Love you, think of you, love you secretly, eagerly love you, wait, feel disappointed, try hard, lose, and feel sad, go apart, and recall.
29  The child was given a prize as a sop to her disappointed parents.
30  I was bitterly disappointed to have lost yet another race so near the finish.