How to Use dejected in a Sentence

dejected

adjective

• The dejected players left the field.
• Ranz, who was once elated by the case’s prospects, now seemed dejected.
  — Matías Costa, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• That maybe feel dejected from life and feel that everything has kind of come to a halt for them.
  — Vikki Ortiz, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
• The loss was enough to send one dejected Browns fans to jump into Lake Erie following the loss.
  — Allen Kim, CNN, 2 Dec. 2019
• The images of the lanky youths, handcuffed and dejected, went viral.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 27 June 2017
• So the Cleveland fans streamed out of the Q, dejected but not despairing.
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• The dejected Humboldt team trudged off the ice after one of the great games in recent league annals.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• Chris felt dejected knowing that Nayte had nabbed the final one-on-one date.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• There were 11 guys who were going to play on the weekend and 11 other guys who were on the bench and dejected and not giving their all for the team.
  — Mike Bianchi, Pro Soccer USA, 5 Feb. 2018
• Afterward, a dejected Carl Eller sat in the locker room and thought about Vikings fans.
  — Chris Tomasson, Twin Cities, 20 Sep. 2019
• King was clearly dejected, as the rest of Beauharnais' teammates were waiting for the ball come a halt.
  — Chris Sims, Indianapolis Star, 10 Feb. 2020
• However the On My Block cast and crew seems hopeful for the future of Freeridge’s best young sleuths — not dejected.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 12 Mar. 2020
• The New York Post’s front page shows de Blasio in a bridal gown, sitting dejected on an altar.
  — Monique O. Madan, miamiherald, 2 Mar. 2018
• For a long time, Helen Kingston had noticed that a lot of her patients seemed dejected.
  — Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2019
• The final score glowed on the scoreboard, as dejected Legion players, some of them bloodied, lay on the grass, spent.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2019
• They weren’t helped by four fumbles, and there were times when everyone in white just looked dejected.
  — Jack Schmelzinger, The Enquirer, 27 Aug. 2022
• Oldham County's Sam Powell walked out of the locker room with a dejected look on his face.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 11 June 2022
• Valles watched from the sidelines after turning her ankle in the first half, and Burghardt and Pacheco shared a dejected embrace walking off the floor.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• Coach Mike McCarthy said the moves was meant to create playing time for younger members of the team, not to send a message to a dejected roster.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2020
• Across the way stood the dejected Broad Ripple Rockets, proudly exiting the court for the last time — ever.
  — Kevin Johnston, Indianapolis Star, 2 Mar. 2018
• After a brief cooldown period in the locker room, the Hoosiers returned to the bench and slumped there, defeated and dejected.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 24 Feb. 2018
• Mckenzie was so dejected that a friend had to trick her into showing up to say goodbye.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2022
• At the end, dejected U.S. players filed into their locker rooms with blank looks.
  — Ronald Blum, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• The Blues went in at half time looking dejected, while the travelling fans were in sombre spirits.
  — SI.com, 13 May 2018
• Or among quiet, dejected fans as the Mavericks blew their lead and lost to the Rockets in overtime in that opener.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2020
• Westbeld spent the first half in the training room and then limped onto the court after halftime, looking dejected.
  — Laken Litman, Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2018
• As for the Bengals, Esterkamp remains a homer, though often a dejected one.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• And later, a dejected Montag talks to her husband Pratt about trying to have a second child.
  — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 14 Apr. 2021
• As the dejected Tigers headed toward their sideline, thinking the play was over, Smith suddenly scooped up the ball and took odd the other way.
  — Paul Newberry, ajc, 4 Dec. 2022
• Penn State could come out dejected after losing against Ohio State.
  — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2017

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