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Example sentences for "frustration"

Lexicographically close words:
frustra; frustrate; frustrated; frustrates; frustrating; frustrations; frustules; frustum; fruta; frute
  1. Yet white officers put in command of black troops felt they were being punished, and their presence added to the frustration of the blacks.

  2. Furthermore, to avoid the frustration suffered by Negroes trained for combat and then converted into service troops, they demanded that Negroes be trained and employed in all military specialties.

  3. They reiterated a story of frustration and difficulty in training and employing black units, characterized black soldiers as unreliable and inefficient, and criticized the performance of black officers and noncommissioned officers.

  4. Bit by bit, again in a crazy pattern, the fires of frustration flared throughout the city.

  5. Pierre screamed at the phone in abject frustration and then slammed the receiver down so hard the impact resistant plastic cracked.

  6. The frustration at knowing one's opponents' thoughts when developing your own coun- ter argument made him angry, too.

  7. Beardsley's heart went out to her, as he observed Arnold in his defeat and Mandleco in his frustration and the huddle of techs in their futile efforts.

  8. People, who will wish what they ought not to wish, must endure the pain that the frustration of such wishes entails.

  9. Like an inspiration an idea had come to him; out of this had sprung another, and yet another, until a chain of events by which the frustration of the schemes of Babbiano and Urbino might be accomplished, was complete.

  10. Whence did they flow but from the frustration of schemes projected for her benefit, as they were executed with her money and by means which the authority of her guardian fully justified?

  11. In normal individuals, these estimates of triumph and frustration are, of course, colored and qualified by signs of approval and disapproval from other people.

  12. Where such a maladjustment occurs, the uneasiness, discomfort, and frustration of action may be removed in one of two ways.

  13. Excesses of drink, gambling, and dissipation among factory populations are often traceable to this continual frustration of normal instincts during working hours, followed by a violent search for stimulation and relaxation after work is over.

  14. The repression of people's accustomed ways of doing things may bring with it a sense of frustration almost as complete and painful as if these obstructed activities were instinctive.

  15. Often one impulse, be it that of curiosity or pugnacity or sex, can be indulged only at the expense or frustration of many others just as natural, normal, and inevitable.

  16. From the tragedy and bitterness of such frustration men have often been reassured by a genuine conversion to the religious life.

  17. To tantalize arises from the mythical perpetual frustration of Tantalus in the Greek story.

  18. There has been, furthermore, a great deal of evidence adduced in recent years by students of abnormal psychology concerning the results of the frustration of native desires.

  19. The old and the accustomed are comfortable and facile; change means inconvenience and frustration of habitual desires.

  20. We saw how, in the frustration of self, the germ of great tragedy lay.

  21. He had to grit his teeth to keep from showing the frustration he felt on this world when trying to understand what these people were thinking.

  22. But again Manning was not at home, and Hanlon could not banish the thoughts of worry and frustration from his mind as he rode slowly back to his own rooms.

  23. In its spaceship the strange being was feeling a depth of frustration almost unknown to one of its cold, logical race.

  24. Having been thus manipulated and largely unable to direct their anger at the veritable sources of their frustration - they turned upon themselves in internecine squabbling, disgraced and flouted.

  25. These people devalue the source of their frustration and envy.

  26. Dazed by the arbitrariness and capriciousness of a vicious neighbour - the Kosovars will lash at each other in an effort to offload their frustration and aggression.

  27. Realizing their inability to be what they always aspired to be, the Newly Rich switched from frustration and permanent humiliation to aggression, violence and abuse.

  28. The actual course of the campaign was no result of a profound design; it resulted from the disagreements of the general's plans, and the frustration of them all.

  29. I could not bear any longer either that awful sense of frustration or the sight of Frank Jervaise's absurdly portentous scowl.

  30. It is one of the most common sources of frustration and conflict in family and professional life.

  31. When an emotional fuse burns out, it is often because we have maintained defenses too long in the face of increasing inner frustration and pain.

  32. Tolerance to Frustration Do you have a fairly high threshold of frustration when your beliefs and ideas are challenged?

  33. Gradually, a more organized style of interacting comes into being through the directive efforts of the therapist or as a result of general group frustration over the lack of coherence.

  34. Do you cope well with the frustration of getting lost in your car, for example?

  35. But Froude dwells with malicious irony on the frustration of the poor woman's hopes.

  36. She had Gardiner, who, always pitiless towards heretics, was savage at the frustration of his own schemes.

  37. He predicted to Assyria the frustration of her plans, and unrolled before Israel a glorious future which was to follow their deliverance from the threatening enemy.

  38. This frustration of their hope, or rather this discrimination against them, enkindled in the patriotic exiles a burning hatred of Babylonia and its monarch.

  39. He who had derided the idea of a Divine Being and Divine justice, who had deliberately assaulted all that men hold sacred, in the end lost confidence in himself in consequence of the frustration of all his plans.

  40. There were still avowed and clandestine Hellenists, who hated Judas Maccabaeus and his devoted adherents, especially the Chasidim, on account of the restraint imposed upon them and the frustration of their efforts.

  41. You could always tell when a radio was being listened to, for when disregarded it sulkily gave off painfully listless noises in frustration and loneliness.

  42. If anything, they increased in frequency, indiscretion, and length as his continued frustration in securing a field command was added to his helpless wrath at the generalstaff's ineptitude.

  43. A fury of frustration rocked my customary calm.

  44. A broken or old one, implies frustration of hopes.

  45. Alum seen in a dream, portends frustration of well laid plans.

  46. If you chance to dream of the crucifixion, you will see your opportunities slip away, tearing your hopes from your grasp, and leaving you wailing over the frustration of desires.

  47. The frustration and the exposure of that plot has increased our reputation an hundredfold.

  48. He did comment on the frustration of the plot, and expressed a desire to learn the identity of the disturber.

  49. The one important item, which pleased and interested the people, was the capture of the spy and the frustration of the plot.

  50. I think it was a dear lesson for him," Hollister said, remembering the man's moods and melancholy, the bitterness of frustration which must have torn Mills.

  51. There are psycho-analysts who appear to regard frustration as the one serious evil in life, and the apostles of vers libre denounce metre and rhyme because these merely serve to frustrate the natural impulses of the imagination.

  52. Genius requires just enough frustration to increase its vehemence, and so to transmute nature into art.

  53. As a matter of fact, it is this very frustration that gives poetry much of its depth and vehemence.

  54. It would be foolish, however, to pretend that frustration is a desirable thing in itself, apart from all other considerations.

  55. Frustration may easily reach the point of destruction.

  56. The tables were now turned on that dear brother departed, and to contemplate the frustration of his cunning by the superior cunning of things in general was a cud of delight to Solomon.

  57. In the story of this passion, too, the development varies: sometimes it is the glorious marriage, sometimes frustration and final parting.

  58. That is the sort of enterprise the women are engaged in, the frustration of the criminal tendencies of those born in vice.

  59. But often the implanting of an idea in the mind is more potent than the frustration of a plan or the gratification of a desire, so hidden are the causes that make character.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "frustration" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambivalence; annulment; balk; blow; buffet; cancellation; check; checkmate; conflict; confusion; dash; defeat; disappointment; discomfiture; disillusionment; dissatisfaction; evasion; failure; fiasco; fizzle; foil; frustration; interference; invalidation; mirage; miscarriage; nullification; offsetting; prevention; rebuff; repression; repulse; reversal; reverse; rout; setback; slip; stress; tease; thwarting; trauma; undoing; mirage; miscarriage; nullification; offsetting; prevention; rebuff; repression; repulse; reversal; reverse; rout; setback; slip; stress; tease; thwarting; trauma; undoing