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Example sentences for "discouraged"

Lexicographically close words:
discountenancing; discounter; discounting; discounts; discourage; discouragement; discouragements; discourages; discouraging; discouragingly
  1. Evidently the Montana's lay-up had discouraged the mass of stockholders.

  2. He had been so thoroughly discouraged by all the callous interests on shore that he felt sure his project was generally considered a failure.

  3. In Australia it is still doubtful how much of the land whose aridity has discouraged settlement can be turned to account either for tillage or for pasture.

  4. Perhaps the intractable nature of the volcanic and other hard igneous stone used by the Incas compared with the comparatively soft limestones of Palenque and Mitla discouraged attempts at elaborate mural decoration.

  5. Sandford would be discouraged in trying to do me good; however, a day or two after this drive, I saw his horses stopping again at our gate.

  6. I've told you how he came to me two days ago and how I discouraged him.

  7. But, what is more serious, we have discouraged that boy.

  8. Penny was not to be discouraged so easily.

  9. Upon reaching home late in the afternoon, she found the housekeeper in a most discouraged mood.

  10. When they seemed almost discouraged the seal would suddenly dive down, and then reappear in the water just behind them.

  11. The beating he got very much disheartened and discouraged the boy, for it was not what he had expected.

  12. Feeling discouraged and rebellious was not of much use,--that was one of Vagabondia's earliest learned lessons.

  13. The count de Broglie, whom he consulted, discouraged his zeal for the cause of liberty.

  14. Resolved to handle the men with the personal touch, he had discouraged his agent and the farmers from coming to the conference, and passed the gate with the braced-up feeling of one who goes to an encounter.

  15. His looks and speech unconsciously discouraged it, so that if Cecilia had been at all that way inclined, she must long ago have been healed.

  16. Indeed, I have been so profoundly discouraged that if I had not thought it my duty to let you know of my fortunes I know not even now if I should have found the necessary spirit.

  17. Little Saunders, the scrub quarter, while working at full pressure himself, seemed to have grown discouraged by past failures to spur the fellows on.

  18. At every rush he was a foot or two ahead of the sluggish Vedder at guard or the discouraged Morris playing on his right.

  19. I see none hear discouraged much, [25] but rather desire to larne to beware by other mens harmes, and to amend that wherin they have failed.

  20. Well, it is good that you did not or you would have done your best to have discouraged her.

  21. In this essay the author spoke of a certain discouraged friend of his.

  22. Because he was discouraged was no reason for making his mother discouraged too.

  23. Poor boy, he'd got so discouraged and put down 'bout it that I didn't know but he'd give up for good.

  24. That's a new one," whispered the Discouraged Man again, delightedly.

  25. Mr. Broadstreet stumbled several times, but the Discouraged Man went up like one who was well used to the premises.

  26. It's all right," he said, as the Discouraged Man tried to pull off the ulster and return it to its owner.

  27. Why," said he simply, "I've found the Discouraged Man.

  28. Perhaps he was more discouraged than ever, just then.

  29. Timidity was fortified by pride, and even the success of my pen discouraged the trial of my voice.

  30. We wrote to each other for two or three years, but I got discouraged and quit.

  31. I'm willing to wait, but Billy seems so discouraged at times I am often afraid he'll run away or do something rash.

  32. She saw that her father would not allow himself to seem discouraged by the silence she maintained on the great subject which awaited her decision.

  33. You have discouraged poor Whelpdale in one of the most notable projects of modern times.

  34. And then at last, on the eighth day, just as he came home tired and discouraged from the station, there sat the Evangelist himself in the parlour.

  35. He had been in his igloo but a short time, and his men and dogs were tired out and temporarily discouraged by the heart-racking work of making a road.

  36. In former years, if the woman had a small baby in the hood it was strangled to keep her company; but I have, of course, discouraged this practice, and during the last two expeditions I have not heard of any strangled babies.

  37. Discouraged by want of success, and having lost all confidence in General Proctor, Tecumseh seriously meditated a withdrawal from the contest, but was induced by Proctor to remain.

  38. He discouraged their desperate attempt to carry the ship by the board, and Fernando, after sending six fishermen to the headland to acquaint their companions there with the change, marched with his force back to the fort.

  39. Well, Jim, I must say I get discouraged when I read of one man being worth a thousand million dollars.

  40. Dust found no place to stick there, it was all so slippery, and the flies were discouraged when they came in and found it so miserably antiseptic.

  41. Coventry hath not come to us, he being discouraged from the little we have to do but to answer the clamours of people for money.

  42. He returned discouraged and dejected; but having now known the blessing of hope, resolved never to despair.

  43. Imlac," said Rasselas, "I have been taking from the Princess the dismal history of private life, and am almost discouraged from further search.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "discouraged" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    broken; dashed; dejected; depressed; desolate; despondent; disappointed; disheartened; dispirited; down; downcast; downhearted; drooping; droopy; heartless; hopeless; hypochondriac; languishing; low; pessimistic; pining; spiritless; subdued; suicidal; woebegone