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Example sentences for "dejected"

Lexicographically close words:
dejado; dejan; dejar; deject; dejecta; dejectedly; dejection; dejects; dejeuner; dek
  1. Inroad of boy in holland, very dejected and inky of aspect, also exclaiming "Pa!

  2. A wide stretch of moorland lies around and about the little village, which crouches in a hollow, like some poor dejected animal that seeks to shelter itself from the bitter blast.

  3. He rubbed the white stubble contemplatively with his hand, and then gave his poor old head a dejected shake.

  4. The keeledar was a most respectable-looking man, and elegantly dressed; but I do not think I ever saw a more careworn and dejected face than his in my life-time.

  5. The following morning was ushered in by the sun's bright beams diffusing their lustre on the dejected features of frightened and helpless mortals.

  6. After a few kind words exchanged between the parties, they sat down with dejected countenances to their melancholy meal.

  7. Grasping the hand of his friend, he gazed on his averted and dejected features with a look of desperate horror.

  8. Seeing him in so dejected an attitude, she approached, and pressing him to her bosom, silently wept with him.

  9. Old man Norris did not open his mouth, but looked dejected and sad, as if he was brooding over what would happen to him when he arrived at his destination.

  10. Shout after shout went up as she rode over the course slowly, Hatrack having settled down into his usual dejected manner.

  11. They've been working us," said Ted, coming up to where Stella and the boys were standing beside Hatrack, which looked more sad and dejected than ever.

  12. There she stood, during the brief moments which sealed her earthly doom, with downcast eyes and utterly dejected posture; her thin fingers playing mechanically with the flowers and sweet-scented herbs spread scantily before her.

  13. The unhappy Prince surveyed the scene with dejected looks.

  14. The leaders returned dejected to their kingdoms, and the bones of their followers whitened the soil of Palestine.

  15. The dejected and humbled metropolitan advanced to the royal throne with downcast eye but unfaltering voice; accused himself of weakness and folly, and firmly refused to sign the articles.

  16. Ranged in a dejected row on Roger's cot they were a most unhappy trio.

  17. The doctor was dejected and stupefied at finding his science so faulty.

  18. Hatteras was hence brought into constant communication with his men, who gazed at him with surly, dejected glances.

  19. Arnold, in like manner, repaired thither; it was thought his ardor might serve to inspire the dejected troops.

  20. The whole company followed in mute and solemn procession, with dejected countenances, testifying feelings of delicious melancholy which no language can describe.

  21. She does those things constantly," said the dejected father.

  22. He certainly had been rather dejected of late and it was such a pity.

  23. Charles was sick, dejected and in adversity.

  24. As he came near his house, dejected and musing, on a sudden lifting up his eyes, he saw a woman in mourning and tears standing before him.

  25. Yes, a distant one," answered the other, with a dull, dejected manner.

  26. I wish he had not always that mournful and dejected look.

  27. I this afternoon made a visit to my Lady Carteret, whom I understood newly come to towne; and she took it mighty kindly, but I see her face and heart are dejected from the condition her husband's matters stand in.

  28. We drove up to the little Hotel du Musee, kept by the sergeant's daughter, a dejected sort of person with a glib tongue and herself rather grey.

  29. Cette looked so bleared and blind the next morning in a sea mist that I have preserved a dejected impression of those low shores, grey tamarisks, and lagunes, and waste places, seen as though in a dismal dream.

  30. The descendants of Abraham must be gathered from the four quarters of the earth; Jerusalem arise and shine; and the dejected Jordan roll his streams with joy.

  31. Daniel was generally dejected and distrustful; Billy buoyant and jolly.

  32. A few days later a ballad describing the affair appeared in the loyalist papers as a letter "from a dejected Jonathan, a prisoner taken in the South Carolina, to his brother Ned at Philadelphia.

  33. The camp was exposed, and, hungry and dejected as they were, they felt the stinging cold.

  34. It was a heavy, gray afternoon, with a cold wind rippling the leaden pools and rustling the reeds, and the watchers felt dejected and alarmed.

  35. The men were tired and somewhat dejected as they sat about the blaze with their damp blankets round them.

  36. He spent much of his time in traveling, and was often dejected and depressed.

  37. She yielded, however, with a good grace, though she seemed dejected and sad.

  38. As I shot the big one on his knees, I was surprised by a noise, and upon turning around found the dejected looking small bull coming full drive toward me.

  39. Must these, dejected shepherd, be betray'd.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dejected" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bad; black; blue; broken; chapfallen; dark; dashed; dejected; depressed; desolate; despondent; disappointed; disconsolate; disheartened; dispirited; doleful; dour; down; downcast; downhearted; droop; drooping; droopy; dull; forlorn; frowning; gloomy; glowering; glum; grim; grum; heartbroken; heartless; heartsick; heavy; hopeless; hurt; hypochondriac; joyless; languishing; low; lowering; melancholy; miserable; moody; moping; morbid; morose; mouth; pessimistic; pining; sad; sinking; sorrowful; spiritless; subdued; suicidal; sullen; sunk; surly; unhappy; woebegone; woeful