DISCOURAGED in a Sentence

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The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.

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 Meanings and Examples of DISCOURAGED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
discouraged
 v.  admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior
 v.  try to prevent; show opposition to
Classic Sentence: (65 in 5 pages)
1  Every evening when he called at her house, weary and discouraged, she was tireless in her tactful, helpful suggestions.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
2  There was that about his grim one-eyed face which discouraged curiosity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
3  They seemed to have no pasts or futures, and they politely discouraged Scarlett when, to make conversation, she asked what or where they were before they came to New Orleans.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
4  And when Ashley came home, sick, discouraged, without a home, without a cent in his pockets, she took him in like a sister.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
5  He was fat and lazy and discouraged, and bad luck had become a habit with him.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
6  When Ole was cultivating his corn that summer, he used to get discouraged in the field, tie up his team, and wander off to wherever Lena Lingard was herding.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: IV
7  She bought other claims from discouraged miners, traded or sold them on percentages.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: I
8  Anton, he was a city man, and he used to get discouraged.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
9  Her husband knew very little about farming and often grew discouraged.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
10  The poor fellow looked like a homeless ghost, with his cheeks sunken in and his long black hair straggling into his eyes; he was too discouraged to cut it, or to think about his appearance.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
11  But his mother had discouraged him.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  The greater part of the men, discouraged, their spirits worn by the turmoil, acted as if stunned.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 20
13  I'm going to be a first-rater; and don't you be discouraged.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
14  For the one discouraged informers and gave heart to those who were disposed to conspire, the other prepared an easy road to his own death, or rather was prime mover in a conspiracy against himself.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI.
15  No wonder that Luke Black, slow, dull, and discouraged, shuffles to our carriage and talks hopelessly.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  Union activity was officially tolerated but strongly discouraged.
2  Never allow yourself to get discouraged and think that your life is insignificant and can't make a change.
3  A spell of tough luck discouraged him.
4  Don't be discouraged; it's often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.
5  My father is a lawyer, and he discouraged me from entering the field.
6  She was discouraged in her marriage.
7  The end result of using this method is that learners leave the classroom discouraged.
8  Rather than get discouraged, the architect saw great potential in the dilapidated house.
9  After over a year of uncertain temp jobs, a once-buoyant optimist had become rightfully discouraged.
10  Davi was born without fully developed limbs but he's not been discouraged, despite the haphazard nature of facilities in Brazil; "Sport is my life because without sport I'm not Davi, " he said, brimming with confidence.
11  He explained the yellow fever epidemic as a providential act to discourage urban growth.
12  The incessant hurry and trivial activity of daily life seem to prevent, or at least, discourage quiet and intensive thinking.
13  Don't let one failure discourage you, try again.
14  We tried to discourage Doug from being so dogmatic, but never could convince him that his opinions might be wrong.
15  This is partly because it wants to discourage people from smoking, since smoking causes so much illness, but also to protect the health of the staff who works there.