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    Use "despairing" in a sentence

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    despairing


    1. despairing father, was made fully aware of the fact that her


    2. I quickly grab the tissues and scrub my face as Dave stands looking at me, his eyes as despairing as the ones I saw reflected in the mirror not that long ago


    3. A sleepy voice startled him out of his despairing reverie


    4. There were a lot of despairing people in his midst, because the regimes of the Christian church were corrupt and failing


    5. Derek’s head ached from the despairing monotony of it all and


    6. for all this his pains would not cease, for the just judgment of God was come on him, therefore despairing of his health, he wrote to


    7. Frustration and exhaustion soon sets in, and the result is the despairing sense of being “overwhelmed


    8. You will get tired of despairing and begin to question


    9. The old man opens his mouth to answer but, before he can, the words are spoken by someone else, someone female, angry and despairing, someone, also, who is not afraid to state her case in front of her master


    10. I let him read the despairing letter Sarah had sent

    11. 18 But for all this his pains would not cease for the just judgment of God was come on him therefore despairing of his health he wrote to the Jews the letter underwritten containing the form of a supplication after this manner: 19 Antiochus king and governor to the good Jews his citizens wish much joy health and prosperity: 20 If you and your children fare well and your affairs be to your contentment I give very great thanks to God having my hope in Heaven


    12. His aura was a solid blue, she noticed, but dark, despairing


    13. John Chrysostom advises that it is not good to be too bold or too despairing


    14. Outcast and despairing men and women flocked to hear Jesus, and he never turned one away


    15. If only one realizes that by killing the other, he was burying the possibilities of his own life, won't the sense of self-preservation obliterate the urge for revenge? And the law, instead of stressing upon the dangling by the rope, would serve well by highlighting the despairing aspects of life behind bars


    16. Mary had gone to the apostles believing that Jesus had risen from the grave, but when they all refused to believe her report, she became downcast and despairing


    17. 12 Thomas was in the midst of one of his typical spells of despairing depression


    18. 2 During these dark and despairing centuries, religion became virtually secondhanded again


    19. A much more despairing thought is that there 51


    20. and raised despairing hands to the gods of infinite chaos

    21. Now, her mother was despairing of being able to give her back some taste for life in this new, strange and backward Earth


    22. When the Japanese finally tried seriously to land troops en masse there, we were down to only a few dozen planes and were despairing of being able to repel the Japanese landings


    23. Ben sat in a room, too despairing to sob any more


    24. Rod made a despairing attempt at rugby-tackling the Grand Wizard, who whinnied in fright and galloped even further off than before


    25. Reader, be of good courage, and never give way to the despairing thought that it is impossible to serve Christ in a town


    26. “Your house?” Whispered Byron, a million questions and despairing anticipation swam in lilac streamers in his head


    27. The hundreds of great lights that hung over the despairing


    28. And so Faith tried to find her way back into the world where Hope was lost in despairing hearts


    29. But Homer shows us Achilles in Hades, who is despairing because he is no longer alive


    30. At that time, she dreamt that the devils had put all their belongings on a donkey after losing hope and despairing of corrupting this truthful repentant

    31. He gave us a despairing look and sat down by the counter


    32. 'And one said to the other over their despairing potations: "Only those can be considered truly happy who are destined never to be born


    33. People desolate of that fruitage are not in favorable terms, they are hateful, quarrelsome, violent, pessimistic, and despairing


    34. Parents will be exposed to hateful, tumultuous, negative, and despairing expression from their children


    35. At one point he almost fell into this pit of these despairing and pitiful creatures, when the inmate he had one leg on, moved


    36. Denver was beside him his hand upon his shoulder and Oak knew he could see what he saw in the distant, despairing, darkness of night


    37. As they had travelled down the eastern side of the Willowbank they had encountered bloodied crops, decaying fish and a despairing people


    38. I remembered the young despairing nineteen-year-old Michael but I think I would have cried anyway


    39. Abigail gave Carrie a despairing look but said


    40. despairing kyboes filled the room

    41. despairing cry ripped into the silence and lasted but for a petrifying moment


    42. (DESPAIRING) Is that all we are?


    43. Elowen still heard the voices; they were faint and despairing,


    44. that despairing process again


    45. This truth does not indeed render it a less solemn thing to bring children into the world; but it represents the birth of children as opening an infinite possibility of life and salvation; it dispels the black cloud which overshadows marriage as if it were the means of peopling an eternal hell, and shows how Christ’s loving word thus turns the bitter water of despairing thought, at every wedding festival, into the wine of hope and gladness


    46. from the throats of that despairing choir the song rolled like thunder and resonated around


    47. The agonised, wasted, consumptive face, the parched blood-stained lips, the hoarse voice, the tears unrestrained as a child's, the trustful, childish and yet despairing prayer for help were so piteous that everyone seemed to feel for her


    48. "It will be too much for you to bear, too much!" she repeated, holding out her hands in despairing supplication


    49. Here one shepherd is sighing, there another is lamenting; there love songs are heard, here despairing elegies


    50. WHEREIN ARE INSERTED THE DESPAIRING VERSES OF THE DEAD











































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    Synonyms for "despairing"

    despairing desperate cynical morbid dark morose foreboding sullen gloomy

    "despairing" definitions

    arising from or marked by despair or loss of hope