Sentence examples for was dashed within from inspiring English sources
That hope was dashed within two days.
"Why, when the hope of bringing the conflict to a decisive conclusion was dashed within months of its outbreak, did the combatants decide to persist, to mobilise for total war and eventually to commit the totality of their young manhood to mutual destruction?" he said.
In many areas, terror prevails.Hopes that another change of leadership would end the violence were dashed within hours.
Any hopes the Blades harboured of increasing their advantage were dashed within four minutes after the referee Lee Mason awarded a dubious penalty.
But any home hopes were dashed within 10 minutes of the restart.
It did not, however, significantly improve the economic or political fortune of the population's poverty-stricken peasant majority; only a few Indonesians were able to gain a larger role in commerce, and hopes for democracy were dashed within a decade.
But his dream was dashed.
Shriver was dashing and handsome.
Within five minutes, their hopes were dashed.
