How to use despair in a sentence

Examples of despair by meaning

More sentences with despair

• The divalike guests drive the luxury resort's staff to growing despair.From the entry divalike
• He was in a pit of despair.From the entry pit
• Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!From the entry look upon
• Rabban Yoḥanan could have succumbed to despair like many at that time.2024, David Golinkin, “Comfort, Oh Comfort My People”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page x. From the entry sacrificial
• One calls LinkedIn a “pit of despair.” Another feels an overwhelming lack of purpose.2024 July 24, Lynette Rice, “Hollywood’s Mental Health Crisis: How Job Losses Are Impacting Industry Executives As LinkedIn Is Labeled A…. From the entry pit of despair
• I am going to describe a video that threw me into a pit of despair.2020 January 29, Dan Brooks, “Comedy Written for the Machines”, in New York Times Magazine. From the entry tween
• In this stage, three main elements can be described: includence, remanence, and despair.2020, Giuseppe Sarli et al., “COVID-19 related lockdown: a trigger from the pre-melancholic phase to catatonia and depression, a case…. From the entry includence
• Income equality often features in popular discussion of deaths of despair and American ill health more generally.2020, Anne Case, Angus Deaton, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 134. From the entry death of despair
• And so we might think that the dialogue offers little more politically than a counsel of despair.2019, Matthew Landauer, Dangerous Counsel: Accountability and Advice in Ancient Greece, page 176. From the entry counsel of despair
• You know nothing about despair until you have experienced a coffee hangover.2018, Pat Fitzpatrick, No Sex, No Sleep, Mercier Press Ltd, →ISBN. From the entry hangover
• I only knew a canyon of vast quaking emptiness with a river of the roughest, churniest despair.2018, Pepper Winters, The Girl & Her Ren. From the entry churny
• Thanks to social media, the opportunity to compare and despair is only ever a click away.2017, Gillian Anderson, Jennifer Nadel, We: A Manifesto for Women Everywhere, page 162. From the entry compare and despair
• Wang’s death was driven by despair over his financial situation and inability to educate his younger children.2014 June 16, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Father’s Day Plea to Educate China’s ‘Illegal’ Children”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Xingyi
• To take up the way of force was no doubt a counsel of despair.2013, Theodor Mommsen, Dero A. Saunders, John H. Collins, The History of Rome, page 122. From the entry counsel of despair
• For many Mexicans today, though, it's a quiet shout of despair.2010 September 15, Arthur Brice, “Mexico bicentennial no cause for celebration for many citizens”, in CNN, archived from the original on…. From the entry bicentennial
• As my despair grape-vined through the community friends called to reassure me.2006, Dov Peretz Elkins, Rosh Hashanah Readings, page 179. From the entry grape-vine
• On the streets of Berlin, Ruth and her compatriots vacillated "between hope and despair."2004, Chris Wallace, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage. From the entry vacillate
• Tyrion was inutterably weary, but there was no time for despair.2003, George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire), Random House, →ISBN. From the entry inutterably
• Don’t despair, Fellow Computer User, in trying to read the labels - labelese can be fun.2003, Clyde Cartwright, “Sector 002 - Dante’s Inferno”, in Clyde’s Guide to Computerese and Weight Loss, New York, N.Y.: Kroshka Books…. From the entry labelese
• Madness, even under the pretext of despair, is never a force that can regenerate the world.September 12, 2001: Jean-Marie Colombani, "Today, We Are All Americans", Le Monde. From the entry today we are all
• For others, they've leaped into a whirlpool of pain, anguish, sorrow and despair.2001, Alexis Rodriguez, Queer Journey. From the entry gayhood
• As well as me failing the Matric, my lack of sophistication was the despair of my mother.1985, Mary Rose Callaghan, Confessions of a prodigal daughter, London: M. Boyars, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry matric
• Intrigues at court then drove him to despair, and he committed suicide by swallowing poison.1977, Marguerite Fawdry, Chinese Childhood, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 111. From the entry Tsao-yang
• Woke up feeling illish and to my despair found it was pouring with black, cold rain.1968, Lady Cynthia Asquith, Diaries 1915-1918. From the entry illish
• But 'the cupboard was toom' would utter the voice of real despair.1951, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, I break my word, page 120. From the entry toom
• In distinguished despair he lighted a cheroot, and for Aaron Gadd that was no trivial gesture.1948, Sinclair Lewis, chapter 5, in The God-Seeker, New York: Popular Library, page 29. From the entry cheroot
• A bird prodigy of evil and hybrid character is the despair of a Norfolk farmer.1920 July 13, Daily Mail. From the entry swoose
• Brandon shook his head in despair at the unbusinesslike methods of his patron.1918, Edgar Wallace, chapter 7, in The Man Who Knew. From the entry shake one's head
• He choked out the confession with the recklessness of final despair.1907, Booth Tarkington, chapter 10, in His Own People. From the entry choke out
• The latter made one tremendous spurt, then gave up in despair and hauled in his oars.1902, Jack London, “chapter XII”, in The Cruise of the Dazzler. From the entry steerageway
• Jack Bigelow’s usually sunny face was bleached to the ashiness of fear and despair.1901, Onoto Watanna, chapter 13, in A Japanese Nightingale, New York: Harper, page 148. From the entry ashiness
• We weep because the Lord’s sheepfold is guarded by wolves; we despair because truth gasps for breath amid lies.2025 November 19, Vivian Ren (pseudonym), “The Weeping Believer: A Report from a Chinese Christian”, in Bitter Winter. From the entry sheepfold
• So we could go from climate denial to climate despair.2015 March 24, Jonathan Mingle, quoting Durwood Zaelke, Fire and Ice: Soot, Solidarity, and Survival on the Roof of the World, St.…. From the entry climate despair
• A scroll of despair, the poem becomes a rite-de-passage.2014 September 6, Sachidananda Mohanty, “A reader’s delight”, in The Hindu. From the entry rite de passage
• One of the other damaging evils we do to ourselves is compare and despair ourselves and our careers against other people.2011, C. Stephen Foster, Awakening the Actor Within. From the entry compare and despair
• The more realistic or authentic an object appears, the more likely it is to elicit anxiety or despair in the automatonophobiac.2011 October 17, Speculo, “The 13 Nightmares of NETHERWORLD Haunted House! Number 12 Automatonophobia!”, in Netherworld News. From the entry automatonophobiac
• She remembered her terrible foredream of the sack of Turbansk and felt a suffocating despair rising in her breast.2010, Alison Croggon, The Riddle: The Second Book of Pellinor. From the entry foredream

Meaning of despair

1. verb To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
2. verb To cause to despair.
3. verb To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.

Full definition of despair

More about despair

• Meaning of despair
• Synonyms of despair
• Past tense of despair
• Despair in Hindi
• Despair in Tamil
• Despair in Urdu
• Despair in Bengali

Questions about despair in a sentence

How do you use despair in a sentence?

Despair is used as a verb and noun. For example: “He turned around in despair, aware that he was not going to survive.”

What is a short sentence with despair?

“He was in a pit of despair.”

What does despair mean?

Despair means to give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.