disheartening

How To Use disheartening In A Sentence

• What became clear was just how many brides found it disheartening. The Sun
• The Golden Bears had lost to Arizona and Southern California in disheartening fashion before beating rival Stanford and then the Aggies USATODAY.com
• I found it a really disheartening process. Times, Sunday Times
• His friend overlooks her disheartening daily experience because she is transfixed by the status and desirability of her job. Times, Sunday Times
• It is very disheartening to read all these admonitions to this nascent antiwar movement saying that the participants are somehow being unserious.
• They rejoiced in the change, not merely from sympathy with the disinthralled negroes, but because it had emancipated them from a disheartening surveillance, and opened new fields of usefulness. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
• It is so disheartening to hear inexcusable statements such as ‘I regret killing her’.
• One of the most disheartening things was to go into that prison and see a massive carpentry shop - fully equipped and fully tooled - empty.
• Few things are more disheartening than watching arrangements you've carefully nurtured come apart. Times, Sunday Times
• It's a disheartening process, but Mike is keen to acknowledge that the key to success is perseverance and determination.