Sample sentences for DISHEARTEN

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Definition

discourage

It is disheartening that so few community college students graduate with a degree.

The team was disheartened by the defeat.
a disheartened and disheartening home
But the snow and the bitter weather had disheartened them all.
Willa Cather -- My Antonia
Elizabeth saw directly that her father had not the smallest intention of yielding; but his answers were at the same time so vague and equivocal, that her mother, though often disheartened, had never yet despaired of succeeding at last.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
Then the officers shall add, "Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him go home so that his brothers will not become disheartened too."
Deuteronomy 20:8 (NIV)
Still, it was galling, this having to admit she was afraid. And when she remembered the toad, she felt even more disheartened.
Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting

disheartened = discouraged

Though there weren't nearly as many slugs or paper clips as I'd thought there might be, I was still disheartened when I counted up the money.
Nicholas Sparks -- A Walk to Remember

disheartened = discouraged

His tail was broke, which made him look disheartened, and he couldn't see nor hear very well.
Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree

disheartened = discouraged

When the fatigue of finding nothing had disheartened Tristan, who was not easily discouraged, Quasimodo continued the search alone.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
"Go on, Sancho my friend, and be not disheartened," said Don Quixote; "for I double the stakes as to price."
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
When he had 'worked round,' as he called it, to Paris in his pilgrimage, and had wholly failed in it so far, he was not disheartened.
Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
If they do come, it may be that just the shadow of their wings will be enough to dishearten the slavers and send them fleeing.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
We are cheered when we observe the vulture feeding on the carrion which disgusts and disheartens us, and deriving health and strength from the repast.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
It was very hard; very hard; lonely and disheartening.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
He was somewhat disheartened by how hard reading was after months of neglect.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
He looked very disheartened.
Paul Zindel -- The Pigman
But the effect on Ishmael Bush was not so disheartening.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie
This conclusion disheartened him.
Pat Frank -- Alas, Babylon
That afternoon, Takumi and I had learned the disheartening results of our first major precalc test of the semester.
John Green -- Looking for Alaska

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