Sentence examples for felt dismay from inspiring English sources

Patrick shut the book, and felt dismay.

When I saw the tattoo, I felt dismay, and I felt it sharply.

When he saw the snow he felt dismay; it meant a dangerous walk to the corner for his newspaper & milk.

Laura Boldrini, the speaker in Italy's lower house, said she felt dismay and indignation following the racist and xenophobic attack.

Then, and still more today, I felt dismay at this blindness, and the thought of how poorly my country had come to terms with its imperial past.

Such rhetoric, echoing Erdogan's full-blooded attacks on Israel over Gaza, could not disguise widely felt dismay that a conflict that has claimed an estimated 40,000 lives since 1984 may be reviving, partly due to political failures.

"I felt dismayed at many people's perception of the illness," she says.

During the closing months of World War II, Eric Sevareid, the CBS radio correspondent, felt dismayed at how inadequate his broadcasts had been in conveying the experience of war.

Naturally, he became emotionally invested in the work, making it difficult to cede control, and, like the British colonel in "The Bridge on the River Kwai," he forgot that what he was building didn't belong to him, and, consequently, felt dismayed at its destruction.

Narrator B felt dismayed by the findings of a national report on CFL in schools (Orton 2008) which had highlighted the alarming 96%% drop-out rate from CFL studies before the final year of secondary school.

If Huckabee felt dismayed by some in his party who have softened their rhetoric on the matter, he didn't show it on Tuesday.