Sentence examples for were dispirited from inspiring English sources

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were dispirited

adjective

Without energy, gusto or drive, enervated, without the will to accomplish, disheartened.

  • So dispirited were the troops after the loss of their beloved commander that they moped about and could barely be bothered to eat let alone load their guns.

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Instead, they were dispirited by continued declines in established, profitable companies.

The attendees were dispirited and fractious, the conference's very name reminding them of how much they'd lost, and how far they had to go.

We wanted a default, an outcome that would be a true reflection of the terrible extent to which we were dispirited by the choices.

Perhaps the Hurricanes, who won Game 1 of this series in overtime, were dispirited by losing Game 3 here in triple overtime on Saturday night.

He assured Fisher that although they were "dispirited", having "been through such warfare as no army has seen in any part of the world", they were "game to the end".

In San Bernardino, teachers and parents who felt a burst of energy in the spring as they helped imagine Pacific High's redesign as a charter school were dispirited and confused when the district abruptly abandoned those plans.

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Italian Socialist Party is dispirited.

set, was dispirited.

My men are dispirited.

But in many ways, she was dispirited.

Yet the province's well-wishers are dispirited these days.

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