Sentence examples for dismayed to be told from inspiring English sources

Students who had applied to Nottingham Trent university were dismayed to be told they had not achieved their expected A-level grades, after the university jumped the gun and emailed applicants to offer them places the day before results are officially published.

Some spectators, who had been patiently waiting to watch the playoff, were dismayed to be told that there would be no Vugraph and they would not be allowed in the playing rooms.

Despite giving the ABC enormous kudos this year, Four Corners had been dismayed to be told that a promise of money for four additional episodes was no longer on the table.

Nor are we dismayed to be told that in outer space, far from a large gravitating object such as the Earth, there is no such thing as the up-down distinction and no direction of space which is the downward direction.

On the Natural History of Destruction is such a timely and startling book because Sebald is not proud to be telling the truth about Germany after the war, he is just dismayed that it might always need to be told.

If you'd voted for John McCain because Barack Obama can't be trusted, wouldn't you be a little dismayed to suddenly be told to line up behind your new commander-in-chief?

After my postings about Appalachia last week, I'm a little dismayed to be back there again.

Pep Guardiola and the City supporters would have been dismayed, equally, had they been told a week ago that De Bruyne might not start his season until October but, set against the possibility of missing the whole season with ligament damage, the prognosis seems almost worth celebrating.

When the dismayed husband asked to vote again, he was told by the election officials that it was not possible unless he obtained an order from the Board of Elections, downtown on Varick Street.

Members of the British government became further dismayed by the proposed marriage after being told that Wallis Simpson was an agent of Nazi Germany.

"We were told there had been a connection but I am dismayed to find that Astor actually owned the club originally," Willis said.