How to Use dispirit in a Sentence

dispirit

verb

• Losses like that one are dispiriting, to be sure, but the Steelers are the Steelers.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• His legacy is one of huge, dispiriting tower blocks—the main focus of the book Maspero and Ms Frantz produced in 1989.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2017
• But the example of Rajasthan, which passed one of the most comprehensive such laws in 2015, is dispiriting.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
• So much was riding on this outcome. That Butler blew an 11-point lead made this defeat dispiriting.
  — David Woods, Indianapolis Star, 6 Jan. 2018
• At the very least, the move sends a dispiriting message at a time when the public and experts alike have deep concerns about A.I.’s rapid evolution and deployment.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2023
• This happened at a time when workers were dispirited over their recent workload in a stormy winter.
  — Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• Saturday marked 30 days since the winter solstice, the often-dispiriting day when the sun reaches its lowest point in our sky.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2018
• The outing continued what has become a dispiriting demise for the Wings, with their 3-1 loss leaving them with one point during a six-game winless stretch.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 6 Mar. 2023
• His job proves exhausting and dispiriting over the years, but his kindly boss comes through with a retirement pension.
  — Sarah Ruden, National Review, 23 Jan. 2020
• That story is a dispiriting one, abounding in promises from on high, short on concrete results.
  — Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times, 31 Jan. 2018
• There will be dramatic highs and dispiriting lows, and little indication when the nodes and crests are coming.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• For a team that lost four of its first six games and that had already endured its share of dispiriting injury news, a performance like Pineda’s had a buoyant effect.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2017
• Those deeply engaged with their mosques are dispirited by the loss of physical congregations.
  — Anna Piela, The Conversation, 22 May 2020
• And just like last year, this five-game snapshot features a three-game winning streak sandwiched between a dispiriting Week 1 loss to the Packers and a three-point probably-shoulda-won upset loss on the road.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 12 Oct. 2019
• That said, its performance against Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, a 28–21 win, was a nice consolation, even if the Bulldogs might have been dispirited by their exclusion from the playoff.
  — Joan Niesen, SI.com, 30 July 2019
• Americans are rightly dispirited in the face of FBI misconduct and Trump campaign misdeeds.
  — David French, Time, 10 Dec. 2019
• The movie’s internalized emotions and elliptical style can allow small things to make large points — as when Kris rides, without comment, in the back seat of Abe’s truck rather than shotgun — but the overall mood rarely rises above dispiriting.
  — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2020
• Our payoff — a return to sunshine and more comfortable humidity levels — for all of this dispiriting weather appears to arrive for the weekend.
  — Rick Grow, Washington Post, 5 July 2017
• Our latest edition includes notes on Toronto’s latest rookie sensation, the always-steady Juan Soto and the Rockies’ dispiriting second half.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• First is that Republicans are simply dispirited after an already grueling year and simply stayed home.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 14 June 2017
• While dispiriting to a newsroom that has won nine Pulitzer Prizes in its 125-year history, Colacioppo said the cuts have only emboldened the reporters to continue doing journalism that matters.
  — Meagan Flynn, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• Schriock insists that dispiriting history will not be repeated in 2018.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 14 June 2018
• Soon—David Sims analyzes Hollywood’s dispiriting trend of using multi-film sagas to attract audiences.
  — The Editors, The Atlantic, 16 June 2017
• Framing the Oscars as a simple face-off between fantasy and realism is dispiriting on a number of levels, not least because those terms are so fungible as to be virtually worthless.
  — Tom Shone, Newsweek, 25 Feb. 2017
• This finding should dispirit every user who turns to social media to find or distribute accurate information.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Mar. 2018
• That’s dispiriting given a massive government fiscal relief effort and Federal Reserve actions aimed at shoring up the financial system, as health experts urge social distancing to combat the spread of the disease.
  — Vince Golle and Sarina Yoo / Bloomberg, Time, 10 Apr. 2020
• In an effort to promote this feature about social media stars on their own social media accounts (the world is eating itself, every day), T.H.R. tweeted a fascinating, dispiriting pie chart, one that pertains exactly to the topic of envy.
  — Richard Lawson, vanityfair.com, 16 Aug. 2017
• In an effort to promote this feature about social media stars on their own social media accounts (the world is eating itself, every day), THR tweeted a fascinating, dispiriting pie chart, one that pertains exactly to the topic of envy.
  — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 16 Aug. 2017
• Even beyond the legal arguments, there is something dispiriting in the Administration’s assertions about the meaninglessness of campaign rhetoric.
  — Amy Davidson, The New Yorker, 26 May 2017
• The cacophony of voices and agendas emerging from Washington was disorienting and dispiriting.
  — Joshua Yaffa adam Entous, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2019

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