Despondent

"Despondent" in a Sentence (12 examples)

They seemed really despondent to find that their project didn't boost profits like they thought it would.

Tom is despondent.

Tom was despondent.

Tom is likely to still be despondent.

He's despondent.

Tom slowly grew despondent.

Millions of Russians feel cheated and despondent.

Those close to her say she was despondent.

He was despondent over the turn of events.

I'm despondent!

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Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.

“Last year, I was despondent that it was so hard to dislodge the iron grip of Google,” said Sridhar Ramaswamy, who previously oversaw advertising for Google, including Search ads, and now runs Neeva. “But technological moments like this create an opportunity for more competition.”

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