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Crestfallen
"Crestfallen" in a Sentence (15 examples)
Brian seems crestfallen.
The boy was crestfallen when he wasn't allowed to go on the trip.
Tom looked crestfallen.
Tom was crestfallen.
Tom's cheeks burned. He gathered himself up and sneaked off, crushed and crestfallen.
Gregson looked quite crest-fallen.
Hall tried to convey everything by grimaces and dumb show, but Mrs. Hall was obdurate. She raised her voice. So Hall and Henfrey, rather crestfallen, tiptoed back to the bar, gesticulating to explain to her.
'He did it awfully well,' said the crestfallen Rat.
I rushed there; no lamp! Crestfallen, I returned to my guru.
And we can sense that, though permanently crestfallen, there is something in his nature, which makes him accept solitude, that is rather fearless.
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Yes, unfortunately, she'd heard him correctly. She was crestfallen. Here she'd come so far to ask him the question, and he didn't know the answer.
Brother Gáeth was a tall man with almost ugly features and a permanently crestfallen expression that made the elderly abbot immediately feel guilty that he had spoken so roughly.
Valentine’s Day means different things for different people. For Homer, it means forking over a hundred dollars for a dusty box of chocolates at the Kwik-E-Mart after characteristically forgetting the holiday yet again. For Ned, it’s another opportunity to prove his love for his wife. Most germane to the episode, for Lisa, Valentine’s Day means being the only person in her entire class to give Ralph a Valentine after noticing him looking crestfallen and alone at his desk.
Diniz was a dark man who seemed closed in on himself, always crestfallen, walking along the walls and corners, answering questions with monosyllables and whispered sounds.
He had short, dark hair, liberally flecked with silver-grey strands, heavily lidded brown eyes and a mouth that turned down at the edges, giving him a permanently crestfallen expression.
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