Sentence examples for be dismayed to receive from inspiring English sources

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My 12-year-old daughter would probably be dismayed to receive such a gift now.

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I was simultaneously excited and dismayed to receive an owl by email this morning.

As an unsuccessful applicant for a 2002 creative writing fellowship, I was dismayed to discover that among those receiving grants were successful authors like Donald Antrim, Matthew Klam and Jonathan Franzen.

They were dismayed to learn of the waivers.

It is dismaying to see practices that are struggling or even dissolving over issues created by poor service.

It was a chaotic, humiliating time when Russians across the board were appalled by the Clintons' push to expand NATO to Russia's post-Soviet borders, when Russians were dismayed at receiving relatively little US assistance when they were flat on their collective behinds.

But some have read enough to be dismayed.

The Ferdinands and other black players were dismayed that Terry received only a four-match suspension and as it only applies in domestic competition, he was free to captain Chelsea in their Champions League tie at Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday.

Should we be dismayed by this?

Don't be dismayed.

But shopping for one proved to be dismaying.

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