Sentence examples for chagrin as from inspiring English sources

Democrats addressed their chagrin as well; Representative Diana DeGette of Colorado, the ranking Democratic member, who had requested that the two executives be called as witnesses, recalled how Mr. Harrison had met with her and other members of Congress in late July.

An investment banker recently described the meltdown, with some chagrin, as "a speed bump".

The earl's grandfather, for instance, was known (to his chagrin) as Lord Snack.

About halfway through her story, Harriet is cast, much to her chagrin, as an onion in her school's Christmas extravaganza.

She is madly in love with Oscar, who regards her, to her chagrin, as his best pal and nothing more.

They focused instead on rhythm and other propulsive processes and created the style that came to be known (to most of the composers' chagrin) as Minimalism.

Last year, much to the Israelis' chagrin, twice as many Jews from former Soviet republics settled in Germany as in Israel, bringing the total inflow to more than 200,000 since 1991.

But Professor Klopfer warned that, as with anything, there was — probably to my nephew's chagrin — such as thing as too much Minecraft.

To the chagrin of Tsvangirai as well as others, a Constitutional Court ruling led to a decree from Mugabe in early June calling for elections to be held at the end of the following month, before the reforms had been enacted.

There was some chagrin at Eisenhower winning as Stevenson had been favored.

To their chagrin -- as the Swiss, their longtime rivals, celebrated -- the Austrian threesome of Marcel Hirscher, Romed Baumann and Benjamin Raich finished fourth, fifth and sixth.