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Example sentences for "bitter disappointment"

  • His journey over the river, begun so hopefully, had ended in a bitter disappointment.

  • Memories of his Paris life, of the morning when he had trudged home in bitter disappointment to the Boulevard St. Germain and Diane, surged into his mind.

  • It was a bitter disappointment, and it proved the last straw to the burden of Jack's troubles.

  • His face fell, and in bitter disappointment he sank heavily into a chair.

  • Philip had a moment of bitter disappointment.

  • The disciples were accomplishing the purpose of God; yet they were doomed to a bitter disappointment.

  • Those who with sincere faith and love had looked for their Saviour, experienced a bitter disappointment.

  • It was a bitter disappointment to them to be told that their toilsome journey had been made in vain.

  • It was the rage of bitter disappointment; but behind it lay the grim set purpose in holding to which with dogged tenacity Ezra and Nehemiah saved Judaism from extinction.

  • He must have been brooding over the bitter disappointment in which the enthusiasm of the returned captives had been quenched.

  • She had so counted on the prospect that a better understanding between herself and Hugh would ensue after Catherine's departure that the downfall of her hopes had come upon her as a bitter disappointment.

  • To say that the result of the "Log Cabin and Hard Cider" campaign was a bitter disappointment to both Democrats and Whigs is putting it mildly.

  • His nomination was a bitter disappointment to the many friends of Mr. Blaine, but they promptly ratified it.

  • Oh, how often in life is the long looked-for moment of joy alloyed by bitter disappointment!

  • This is a bitter disappointment to me altogether; and your Grace must pardon something in a man so circumstanced.

  • You are so often hard upon him; it must have been such a--such a bitter disappointment!

  • She added, her false calm giving way, "And to me such a bitter, bitter disappointment!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    better not; bitter almond; bitter almonds; bitter disappointment; bitter enemy; bitter grief; bitter laugh; bitter taste; bitterly cold; black veil; didst thou; four cubits; innocent woman; living being; many men; most people; much evil; particular churches; poor fellow; poor wife; sending them; she stared; then enter; used alone; wireless telegraphy; wish you would tell