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Discover LudwigThe phrase "dashed hope" is correct and can be used in written English
It means hope that has been suddenly and abruptly destroyed or ended. You can use it in a sentence to describe a situation where someone had high hopes for something, but those hopes were suddenly crushed or ruined. For example: "After months of hard work and anticipation, her dashed hope of getting the promotion was devastating." "I held onto my dashed hope that the flight would be delayed, but unfortunately, it departed on time." "The team's dashed hope of winning the championship was evident as they left the field, defeated."
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His era at the Garden will resemble Gretzky's in terms of false hype and dashed hope.
The latest closing the gap report is a litany of dashed hope.
Last year's dashed hope, Big Brown, was so thoroughly beaten by the Belmont he stopped running, and finished last.
You can almost hear the mutterings of righteous defiance and dashed hope in a voice veering out of control.
TOKYO — Sony on Thursday reported its first annual loss in 14 years and forecast another grim year ahead, as the prolonged economic slump and a strong yen dashed hope for a quick recovery.
Frank and April's summer of dashed hope and ruined plans is excruciating not merely because it forces them to admit an existential defeat, but because it shows them a happiness they would never have known, had they never thought of leaving, and also, crucially, a happiness they would never have had in Paris: a happiness of pure, innocent, happy anticipation.
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Many of those dashed hopes I shared.
Unseasonably mild weather dashed hopes of a White Christmas yesterday.
New York: the city of missing teeth and dashed hopes.
Unlike little Spacer, he never confronted his dashed hopes manfully.
That has dashed hopes that robust growth might ease unemployment.
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