Sentence examples for for dismay from inspiring English sources

He said there were "reasons for dismay" at the rich countries' failure to cut carbon emissions.

At the last minute, it was canceled, initially a cause for dismay.

The furor over the proposed Islamic cultural center and mosque near ground zero keeps giving us new reasons for dismay.

While the findings reported are well taken, I'm not so sure that women leaving astronomy is cause for dismay.

All of that is reason for dismay, unless you like watching games like Steelers-Ravens turn into something resembling a bar brawl, as Gene Wojciechowski writes on ESPN.com.

(Or cause for dismay: from here in Columbia County, the decision to keep New York City public schools open just seems mean).

So the news that 8,000 jobs – a quarter of the overall total – have been lost from UK libraries over the past five years makes for dismaying reading.

To the advisers who had hovered about him over the years, it was cause for alarm and dismay that he had placed so much trust in Brooke's ability.

In Norfolk, Virginia, Gibson attended Pines Elementary School, where the teachers' lack of encouragement for him to read was a cause of dismay for his parents.

How America prepares its teachers has been a subject of dismay for many years.

When a test is really, really hard, students sometimes can't resist looking at the face of the class know-it-all for signs of dismay or discomfort.