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Example sentences for "dissipated"

Lexicographically close words:
dissimulate; dissimulated; dissimulating; dissimulation; dissipate; dissipates; dissipating; dissipation; dissipations; dissociate
  1. During his first three days ashore he had dissipated his three years' pay.

  2. But when nerve energy is dissipated from any cause (such as physical or mental excitement or bad habits) the body becomes weakened or enervated.

  3. Presently repellance grew under the frozen mask of astonishment and dissipated it.

  4. She saw now that it was not a dissipated face; it was as smooth and unlined as polished marble, which at present it resembled.

  5. Her cogitations were dissipated by a knock on the door.

  6. And yet, the doctor recalled an expression of the girl's: that it was not a dissipated face, only troubled.

  7. In the genuinely dissipated face there was always a suggestion of slyness in ambush, peeping out of the wrinkles around the eyes and the lips.

  8. Raoul Nathan, a member of all the giddy and dissipated social circles, was with Giroudeau, Finot and Bixiou, a witness of Philip Bridau's wedding to Madame J.

  9. Sterile, dissipated and prodigal, she made her husband very unhappy, thus avenging the first Mme.

  10. The dissipated life of her husband at Paris and the combination of the Cruchots upset her plans.

  11. The wind had dissipated the clouds, and the stars were shining brightly.

  12. Thus this force could be produced or dissipated at will to such degrees as might be desired, and its action, so long as the requisite pressure was maintained, was constant.

  13. You'll have that dissipated degenerate Rasaldu at all your feasts, though he's not even accepted by his own people.

  14. From time to time his brown, dissipated eyes shot irritable glances at the figure seated immediately behind his hostess.

  15. This is as instantly dissipated by the wind, and before the rattle of the rifles reaches us he is down.

  16. In addition there remains the memory of about twenty 'benefactions,' many of which were 'absorbed in the tumult of the Civil War or generally dissipated by neglect or mismanagement.

  17. With all his dissipated proclivities, Henry Fielding had much more genius than Robert Greene.

  18. Though Macaulay tells us that his vices were not so great as his virtues, still he was dissipated and licentious.

  19. To her he was merely a fallen, weak, dissipated man, criminally neglectful of opportunities, criminally indifferent to his obligations.

  20. The terrible things he had passed through were dissipated like smoke, and all his strange and ferocious intellect was re-aroused, and found itself erect and free, ready to march onward.

  21. It is a magic power which it would be difficult to understand, were we to read in a book this conversation made to be carried away and dissipated like smoke beneath the leaves by the wind.

  22. It was in vain that Angoulême indignantly reproached the King, and that the ambassadors of the three Eastern Courts pressed him to draw up at least some kind of amnesty.

  23. If there were not two conflicting systems at work, there were two conflicting bodies of partisans in the State.

  24. He evacuated the lines without waiting for the approach of the French, and fell back in the direction taken by the second army.

  25. Its qualities were those engrained in Spanish official life.

  26. A student from Erlangen, Carl Sand, who had accompanied the standard at the Wartburg festival, formed the silent resolve of sacrificing his own life in order to punish the enemy of his country.

  27. A passion for uniformity and common sense prompted the Government to revive the Emperor Joseph's edicts against pilgrimages and Church holidays.

  28. The best testimony to his integrity is the irritation which it caused to Talleyrand.

  29. The new-comers were professed agents of the reaction; those who were permitted to retain their offices strove to outdo their colleagues in their renegade zeal for the new order.

  30. Many of these victims of the King's perfidy were sent into safety by the French.

  31. There was at least one emotion which dispelled and dissipated my thoughts: it was fear.

  32. I was growing uneasy every moment, when suddenly a light step dissipated my dream.

  33. He became now a thoroughly dissipated character, rarely returned home till long after his wife's eyes had become heavy by watching for him; and when he did, it was only to exhibit his own disgrace, and torture her feelings.

  34. Very true; and we know that many who become virtuous in old age, have been dissipated in their youthful days.

  35. The first difficulty arose from the waste of the carbons, which are dissipated in part by ordinary combustion, and in part by the electric transfer of matter from the one carbon to the other.

  36. This cross-piece is immediately dissipated or removed by the current, the passage of which once established is afterwards maintained.

  37. Under the fierce light of scientific enquiry, it is sure to be dissipated if it possess not a core of truth.

  38. A young Arab waiter, with a thin, dissipated face, stood near the door in bright yellow slippers.

  39. But to-night she felt almost neurotic, like one of the weak or dissipated sisterhood for whom "rest cures" are invented, and by whom bland doctors live.

  40. The massacres of 1391 dissipated his last hope of obtaining high preferment as a Jew, and he consequently resolved, in his fortieth year, to be baptized.

  41. His own statement is that his generosity dissipated his means.

  42. While the elder brothers dissipated their wealth in romantic adventures, and the castle of Courtenay was profaned by a plebeian owner, the younger branches of that adopted name were propagated and multiplied.

  43. They had signalized their valor in the siege: they embraced the moment of retreat, while the Turkish mariners were dissipated in the pillage of the city.

  44. As was the intention of the statute, the abolition of entails by the legislature of the new Commonwealth of Virginia, first diluted, then dissipated the power of the aristocracy.

  45. At the time he was an unknown, ungainly and somewhat dissipated young lawyer.

  46. The man appeared perfectly sober,--it was a peculiarity of his dissipated habits that, when not actually raving with drink, he was singularly shrewd and practical.

  47. The spirits of Sophia were too much dissipated by concern to enable her to stop the torrent of her maid.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dissipated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandoned; attenuated; bated; belittled; broadcast; consumed; contracted; curtailed; debauched; decadent; deflated; diffuse; discrete; dispersed; disseminated; dissipated; dissolute; distributed; drained; effete; eroded; excessive; exhausted; expended; fallen; fast; finished; forfeited; free; gallant; gay; gone; impoverished; irretrievable; less; lesser; licentious; lost; lour; lower; lowered; minimized; outrageous; profligate; promiscuous; rakish; reduced; riotous; scattered; sensual; shorn; shorter; shrunken; smaller; sparse; spent; sporadic; spread; squandered; straggling; unbridled; used; voluptuous; wasted; weakened; widespread; wild; worn