Sentence examples for a crestfallen expression from inspiring English sources

Seven minutes were played when the captain went down and a crestfallen expression pointed to this being his latest calf problem.

Pudgy, 34 and possessed of features that seem to naturally arrange themselves in a crestfallen expression, he has a face that fits his band: Elbow's music is careworn and mature and, up until this year, carried the tang of perennial commercial disappointment.

At his locker later, Weber checked his cellphone messages with a crestfallen look on his face.

A request for chablis was met with a crestfallen look and an indifferent minervois offered instead.

There are even traces in the brilliant BBC3 documentary I Believe in UFOs: Danny Dyer, even though the abiding memory of that is of Dyer's crestfallen expression when – having spent an age attempting to figure out what complex alien machinery it would take to form crop circles – he watches a video of some pranksters clomping around a field with planks on their feet.

Correction to this articleTHE bravest face the government can put on it is a crestfallen one.

"Yeah, I had it," a crestfallen Federer said later.

A crestfallen Hoffman struggled for words.

A crestfallen Moya had nothing left.

(Hopper painted him just once, as a crestfallen man sitting on the edge of a bed).

The presidency was "still relevant," a crestfallen Clinton told the press.