Sentence examples for make despondent from inspiring English sources

Ms Boxer worries that the scandal will make despondent Democrats stay at home; indeed, the voter turnout in this year's primaries has been a near-record low.

Eyes to the future, I refuse to allow the latest fighting in Gaza between Hamas and Abbas's Fatah to make me despondent, even when Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader, tells me in a phone call that: "Without unification of the West Bank and Gaza, Abbas cannot represent the Palestinian side at Annapolis".

In fact, it can make people despondent and apathetic, she said.

"The fact that journalists have been calling attention to some of the same problems for more than a hundred years might make one despondent, but it shouldn't... .. Schiffrin writes in her book.

This shouldn't make you despondent... there are many other people that will find you attractive in all forms, intellectually, physically, emotionally... the fact is, you need to accept it and move on (without being pessimistic) that he/she just wasn't that into you, but there is someone out there that eventually will be.

Years of neglect with seemingly no resolution in sight made me despondent.

"Loans make them feel despondent and frustrated.

They make me feel despondent and tired.

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.

As Ian Buruma writes: "Seen from the rest of Europe, post-imperial Britain often appears to have retreated into an insular sulk .If this picture makes the English despondent, Mr Buruma's book offers a partial antidote.

Mr Murphy made the uncharacteristically despondent forecast in an interview with STV after a new Ipsos-Mori poll for the broadcaster predicted Nicola Sturgeon's SNP would win all of Scotland's 59 seats.