Sentence examples for despondent in from inspiring English sources

There's no Slough of Despond, though Harold does become quite despondent in Stroud; and there's a significant distinction in that Joyce's pilgrim doesn't believe in God.

Mr Steinbrück has partly re-energised the SPD, which had been despondent in recent weeks.

Newcastle's interim manager Alan Shearer has urged his players not to lose faith and become despondent in their desperate battle to avoid relegation from the Premier League.

The mood was clearly despondent in New York, where the cadre from M.L.S. had been hoping to run a great event in 12 years.

BEIJING — Despondent in Lane 5 after swimming 100 meters on Monday morning, Alain Bernard was overjoyed in Lane 5 after swimming the same distance on Thursday.

What is more, the sense of his own obsolescence, which had made him so despondent in the war years, now paradoxically freed him from any obligation to be socially relevant.

Mind Contorted and Casper the Friendly Ghost have dainty tunes, while the despondent Life in Vain trundles along in the merry manner of His Latest Flame.

"Mostly through requests from America and stints in Vegas" he says, a despondent glaze in his watery blue eyes, "it's the same thing they want.

In his concession speech before a despondent audience in Calgary, Harper did not mention his resignation, instead focusing on thanking his supporters.

The dramatic reversal of progress in this area has left campaigners despondent, because in the first decade of the 21st century many felt there was a genuine prospect of eliminating rough sleeping entirely.

"Will no one speak in favour of New Labour?" asked a despondent John Harris in the chair.