Sentence examples for a despair from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a despair" is not correct and typically not used in written English.
Despair is an uncountable noun, so it does not take the article "a."
Example: "She felt despair when she realized she had lost everything."
Alternatives: "a feeling of despair" or "a sense of despair."

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But I don't think there's a despair.

There is a lack of authority, a despair.

I think there was a despair at that time.

He insists that suicide bombing doesn't reflect a culture of death but a despair of occupation.

For them, a despair brought about by inequality has long been an ugly constant.

He grew up in a "community formed out of a despair at loss.

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It is a despair-inducing set of challenges — fighting well-supplied and well-financed companies that are backed by the muscle and unofficial imprimatur of the government — challenges that would give a leader of sturdiest determination pause.

"Each of which would prompt a different utterance, to which, again, I would have multiple options in responding, and I knew how quickly I could be led eight or 10 steps out on to some dangerous tree branch and what a despair-inducingly slow job it was to retrace my steps".

She makes a despairing noise.

The debate is often a despairing one.

O sogno, o son desto?" (K. 431), a lament of a despairing prisoner.

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