Sentence examples for a dissipated from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "a dissipated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has indulged excessively in pleasures, often leading to a decline in moral or physical well-being.
Example: "After years of a dissipated lifestyle, he found himself alone and regretting his choices."
Alternatives: "a debauched" or "a dissolute".

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Knight of Cups (2015) chronicled the surreal wanderings and encounters of a dissipated film-industry professional (Christian Bale) in a series of chapters named after tarot cards.

Last year, Mr. Malone left a "dissipated technical writing gig" to find a peaceful place to write things closer to his heart.

For "The Master of Thornfield," his own adaptation of "Jane Eyre," Mr. Hartford chose a dissipated Errol Flynn as his star.

He created the feature with the comics Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer, and Michael McKean, who starred as the members of a dissipated heavy metal band.

I did make up for the absence of Gatsby with Nick Carraway's beautifully poignant ruminations on turning 30 (though perhaps I overcompensated for the Gatsby-shaped hole by allowing Leopold Bloom (38), to be trumped by a dissipated Dick Diver).

More important, it encourages absorption in his talent's essential qualities, which persisted after a series of nervous breakdowns led him, in 1909, both to reform a dissipated life style and to mute the psychodrama of his halcyon art.

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A low pressure area formed along a dissipating cold front to the north of Puerto Rico.

A dissipating cold front spawned a tropical depression east of Bermuda on July 24.

The hurricane accelerated to the north and absorbed a dissipating Tropical Depression Karen on September 3.

A non-tropical low developed along a dissipating stationary front on September 16 in the central Atlantic and drifted north-northeastward.

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