Sentence with word dismay. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use dismay in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for dismay.
- Dearer for that soft dismay! (10)
- She got up in dismay. (8)
- In dismay, Ipley started. (10)
- Fulkerson repeated, in dismay. (9)
- Lady Blandish met Richard in dismay. (10)
- And with dismay he saw her open a portfolio. (8)
- Her brother asked her in dismay if she was tired. (10)
- She opened it with misgiving, and read it with dismay. (8)
- Cecilia heard that question with something like dismay. (8)
- But almost before the words had left his lips he felt dismay. (8)
- But even there he found, to his dismay, no finality of judgment. (8)
- Much to his sorrow and dismay, he found a new Governor installed. (19)
- He stopped, with a look of dismay that broke up in a hopeless laugh. (9)
- She beheld with dismay that the ranks of her soldiers were wavering. (5)
- She looked him in the eyes, with dismay in her growing intelligence. (9)
- What fills me with doubt and dismay is the degradation of the moral tone. (14)
- There comes a sudden swish and splash of water, and broken yells of dismay. (8)
- I did not assent to the possibility, but the notion gave me a shiver of dismay. (9)
- Conceive his dismay when he entered the house, to find there a man in possession. (10)
- In the silence that followed, Fulkerson looked from one lady to the other with dismay. (9)
- Her mother remained looking at her, helpless, not so much with amaze, perhaps, as dismay. (9)
- The judge had no heart to speak, in his dismay, and it was Mrs. Kenton who took the word. (9)
- The moment she was better, Winton, in dismay, whisked her back to Aunt Rosamund, in town. (8)
- Farina beheld a scene that first dazzled, but, as it grew into shape, sank him with dismay. (10)
- Bob Pierson, then, paced the room, so absorbed in his dismay and concern, that he was almost happy. (8)
- He had expected a cry of dismay; the silence with which his pronouncement was received alarmed him. (8)
- He plodded along amongst the damp woods with his head down, and resentment and dismay in his heart. (8)
- Whatever potential complicity had lurked in her heart, his words brought her only immeasurable dismay. (9)
- But, since he was not a philosopher, he did not perceive the inconsistency between his theory and his dismay. (8)
- The changing emotions chased one another through her heart and over her face: dismay, shame, pride, tenderness. (9)
- Stephen looked at his brother in surprise, amounting almost to dismay; he had spoken with such unwonted resolution. (8)
- Nothing could have been more striking than the change from her look of guttered expectancy to a sort of hard dismay. (8)
- Accepting life as it came, Thirza showed no dismay, but her cheeks grew a little pinker, and her eyes a little rounder. (8)
- The contrast he presented to my sensations between our pleasant home and this foggy solitude gave me a pang of dismay. (10)
- Fanny, in dismay at such an unprecedented question, did not know which way to look, or how to be prepared for the answer. (4)
- After Mrs. Arnold, in a fit of temper, had left her husband, Arnold arose in dismay, then sat down dejectedly in his chair. (18)
- It suddenly struck her that it might be from Lady Catherine; and she anticipated with dismay all the consequent explanations. (4)
- She dropped her hand in his, and it was with a thrill of dismay that he felt the rush of passion reanimating his frozen veins. (10)
- She dropped her hand in his, and it was with a thrill of dismay that he felt the rush of passion reanimating his frozen veins. (22)
- A groan of dismay went up from the whole circle, and some who had pressed forward for a sight of the slippers, shrank back again. (9)
- She had the pleasure of seeing her flush with hope, and then the pain which was also a pleasure, of seeing her blanch with dismay. (9)
- A fortnight ago it would have been perfection; now it filled him with dismay; he felt that the sudden suggestion had to do with Fleur. (8)
- Hours of real dismay and suffering for it is suffering, indeed, to feel a loved thing swallowed up in that hopeless haze of London streets. (8)
- Shelton listened with mingled feelings of amusement and dismay, till the old actor, having finished, resumed his crouching posture at the table. (8)
- It is, indeed, rather terrible, and it is of a quality in its celebrities which may well carry dismay to any among us presently intending immortality. (9)
- No sooner, however, had they established themselves in Stanhope Gate than he perceived to his dismay a return of her old absorbed and brooding manner. (8)
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Definition of dismay:
- dismay, dis-m’, v.t. to terrify: to discourage. | n. loss of strength and courage through fear. | n. dismay’edness. | adj. dismay’ful (_spens._). (0)
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