How To Use slough of despond In A Sentence
- And then I have to push through the self-doubt what I call the Slough of Despond and emerge from the other side. Interview: Pat Murphy
- This range of moods, from exaltation to the slough of despond, is entirely appropriate for the 24 Preludes and Fugues — a kind of expressivity rarely matched by the Russian pianists who recorded excerpts from the work, from the overimposing monumentality of Sviatoslav Richter to the dignified, restrained lyricism of Emil Gilels. From Despair to Delight
- But for rugby at any rate, it looks as though there is a chance that Scotland may soon exit from the slough of despondency in which we have recently wallowed.
- How did this afternoon become so wonderful, she asked herself, when a couple of hours ago I was in the slough of despond? PROSPECT HILL
- How did this afternoon become so wonderful, she asked herself, when a couple of hours ago I was in the slough of despond? PROSPECT HILL
- And he said unto me, This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore it is called the Slough of Despond; for still, as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many fears, and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together, and settle in this place. The Pilgrim`s Progress
- So, the Bride had mounted into her handsome chariot, incidentally accompanied by the Bridegroom; and after rolling for a few minutes smoothly over a fair pavement, had begun to jolt through a Slough of Despond, and through a long, long avenue of wrack and ruin. Little Dorrit
- How did this afternoon become so wonderful, she asked herself, when a couple of hours ago I was in the slough of despond ? PROSPECT HILL
- But, in the meantime, he was dragging Greenock up from a slough of despondency and defiantly offering no apologies for snapping up the best available talent.
- I agree - I felt like I was in the Slough of Despond wading through some of the battle passages and pages and pages of description. Iconoclasm
