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Example sentences for "depression"

Lexicographically close words:
depressant; depressants; depressed; depresses; depressing; depressions; depressive; depressor; depriue; depriued
  1. One of the two days was Loring's birthday, and I found him in a state of altogether ridiculous depression when we met after breakfast.

  2. Sometimes I think the cause may be found in the sudden industrial recovery after ten years' depression following the South African War.

  3. The Peiwar Kotal is a narrow depression in the ridge, commanded on each side by high pine-clad mountains.

  4. Its nest is a mere depression in the sand, and it lays three or four eggs which are very similar to our common Green Plover or Lapwing.

  5. The two girls watched the chase until a depression in the fields hid the three from sight.

  6. Either a depression in the field over which he was running, or some hollow between hummocks, now hid the man from view.

  7. He pointed with earnestness to the fact that times of depression had been surmounted in the past, and that they should be surmounted again.

  8. She had alternated, since Daniel's sudden death, between fits of depression and elation.

  9. In fact, the most disagreeable sort of depression is that which we know we are responsible for ourselves.

  10. Raymond thought himself into a tangle and found a spirit of great depression settling upon him.

  11. Having produced that effect, one may expect the depression to follow after the examination.

  12. Normally, the subject experiences on the following day a feeling of relief and well-being and should, normally, be wholly free from headache, depression or languor.

  13. Neither did the bright and yet delicate hue suit the lady's expression of countenance, which betokened ill humour and a depression not to be concealed.

  14. There was not in his bearing a trace of the depression of mind that one might suppose consequent upon such a misfortune as had befallen him.

  15. The numberless deep channels which part the isles and islets would rather mark depression still going on.

  16. Most of these paddocks have, I believe, been under cane cultivation at some time or other; and have been thrown into grass during the period of depression dating from 1845.

  17. This elevation may have well coincided with the depression of the neighbouring Gulf of Paria.

  18. To the practice which distinguished the period of depression above alluded to, aided perhaps by the spirit of clanship, we may owe the existence of so many aristocratic names among the humbler tradesmen in Scotland.

  19. Finally an assault was ordered all along the Une, and Wall was driven back to a deep depression in the ground, behind which, on the rising slope beyond, he reformed his line.

  20. He had possession of two hills, with a depression in his front between him and the main ridge, it being his objective point.

  21. Anderson repaired to his own headquarters, which had been moved up to and in a depression or cut near Antler's Run, on the east side.

  22. Two battalions of New Zealanders met on the northern slopes of the Rhododendron ridge, and gathered in a depression quite well distinguishable from the No.

  23. But the cheerful bustle in the courtyard, the noise of horses and dogs, the shouts and exclamations of huntsmen and servants prevented any feeling of depression from seizing the guests.

  24. Carney rode the buckskin, and the Wolf strode along in front, his mind possessed of elation at the prospect of being helped out of the country, and depression over the loss of his money.

  25. The indefinable depression took possession of Bulldog again; he tried to shake it off--it was childish.

  26. She looked out of one of the front windows and saw him huddled in a big rocking-chair, and she wondered at the depression that sat so heavily upon him.

  27. And a man who had been slipping into the shelter of a depression on the side of a hill a hundred yards distant, tumbled grotesquely out and down, and went sliding to the bottom of the gorge.

  28. The strain of sadness, melancholy, and depression which appears in Arnold's poetry is rigidly excluded from his prose.

  29. Again that unaccountable depression came over him.

  30. In the second generation the plants were from nine to ten feet in height, and ripened their seed better; the depression on the outer side of the seed had almost disappeared, and the original beautiful white colour had become duskier.

  31. If he can't get much of a look in by direct means, he'll try indirect ones, and depression is one of his favourite indirect methods.

  32. The depression had been at its lowest ebb as they ran into Bath.

  33. You always want to shoulder the blame for every speck of wrong-doing or depression that appears in your little universe.

  34. A mood of utter depression was upon him, though for the life of him he could not tell fully what was causing it.

  35. It was during this time of terror around and depression within that Mary met Captain Gilbert Imlay, an American, at the house of a mutual friend.

  36. She went to Mrs. Beauclerc's ball with Trelawny; but she refers to a strange feeling of depression in the midst of a gay assembly.

  37. On arriving at their destination at Lake Como, their temporary resting-place, a passing depression seized the party, the feeling that often comes when shut in by mountains away from home.

  38. He thought he would satisfy himself on that point; so he searched around till he found a small sandy spot with a little funnel-shaped depression in it.

  39. Ever since their first meeting his depression had left him; his existence had once more regained its savour.

  40. That time of depression must perhaps return; and its return may be coincident with scarcity caused by unfavorable seasons.

  41. Financial distress and industrial depression made the populace restless and discontented.

  42. It seems to be incident to great prosperity that there shall be a reverse--that the time of depression shall follow the season of excitement and success.

  43. The depression of his Sunday evening walk had made John less critical than he usually was of James' rooms, and he heard the gate of the front-garden swing back behind him with a sense of pleasurable expectation.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "depression" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abatement; abridgment; abstraction; agony; alienation; alleviation; alveolus; anguish; anxiety; apathy; bale; basin; bitterness; blaze; blues; boom; bowl; bust; cavity; cleft; compulsion; concavity; contraction; crater; crisis; crypt; cup; cut; decline; decrement; deduction; deepening; deflation; degradation; dejection; depreciation; depression; descent; desolation; despair; desperation; despondency; detachment; diminution; dip; disappointment; discomfort; distress; doldrums; downturn; dumps; dying; elation; emotionalism; ennui; excavation; expansion; extremity; fold; follicle; gash; gloom; grief; growth; hack; heartache; hole; hollow; hopelessness; hurt; hypochondria; hysteria; impression; incision; indentation; indifference; infelicity; insensibility; jag; lacuna; lamentation; languor; lassitude; lessening; lethargy; low; lowering; lowness; lying; malaise; mania; melancholia; melancholy; mining; misery; mitigation; mournfulness; nick; obsession; oppression; pain; pathos; peak; pessimism; pit; pocket; poignancy; preoccupation; probing; prosperity; prostration; recession; reclining; recovery; recumbency; reduction; relaxation; sadness; sagging; scoop; score; sharpness; shell; simplicity; sink; sinking; sinus; slot; slowdown; slump; socket; sorrow; stupor; submergence; subtraction; trough; twitching; unhappiness; upturn; vapor; weakening; withdrawal; woe