Despair is an English word with synonyms like hope or desperation. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Despair in a sentence
Related words
Despair meaning
- To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of.
- To cause to despair.
- To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
Synonyms of Despair
Using Despair
- The main meaning on this page is: To give up as beyond hope or expectation; to despair of. | To cause to despair. | To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation.
- Useful related words include: hope, desperation, condition, status.
- In the example corpus, despair often appears in combinations such as: of despair, and despair, despair and.
Context around Despair
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 9 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Despair
- In this selection, "despair" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, utter, existentialist, beyond, apart, beyond and abandonment stand out and add context to how "despair" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ashes of despair brutality cynicism and changed from despair to gleeful. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "despair" sits close to words such as apologized, drastic and equations, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with despair
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But it did not end as despair. (7 words)
Brett felt utter despair after Kiama shark attack. (8 words)
But lately their tone has changed from despair to gleeful gloating. (11 words)
Although cascading global crises are undermining hard fought development gains, "now is not the time for despair", UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told African ministers and policy makers meeting in Niamey, Niger, on Tuesday. (35 words)
Examples of efficient ways of combo-ing with her toolkit involve multi-directional attacks (Moondance, Flow: Sacred Dance), vertical slices (Cymbidium), and mobile reaches (Three Point Stipple, Spring Breeze, Blooming Nether Flower, Bridled Despair). (34 words)
For instance, if you go for red flowers for a funeral party, things might turn out in utter despair for the people attending the occasion, and it can be disrespectful to the particular culture. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
What sets the existentialist notion of despair apart from the conventional definition is that existentialist despair is a state one is in even when he isn't overtly in despair.
Note how William Styron describes his own depression in his memoir, “I experienced a curious inner convulsion that I can only describe as despair beyond despair.
Ackerley and Gontarski (2004) Broadly speaking, the plays deal with the subject of despair and the will to survive in spite of that despair, in the face of an uncomprehending and incomprehensible world.
A cartoon from The Honolulu Advertiser in 1993 illustrates the despair many people in Hawaii have felt about homeownership for generations.
Although cascading global crises are undermining hard fought development gains, "now is not the time for despair", UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told African ministers and policy makers meeting in Niamey, Niger, on Tuesday.
And it’s proof that Black artists need to be given the space to create work about both joy and despair, and everything else in between.
And there is despair over a decision by the Welsh Labour administration of First Minister Mark Drakeford to make 20mph the default speed limit.
And the sense of despair was reinforced when James Maddison did what James Maddison does.
Another sad legend says that when a young woman, waiting for her seafaring husband to return, learned that he had perished, in despair she threw herself out a window.
Anything that deepens Palestinian resentment and despair is not, Makovsky observes, a purely internal Israeli matter.
As he struggles to break the cycle, Phil goes through a series of emotions, from frustration and despair to acceptance and personal growth.
Brett felt utter despair after Kiama shark attack.
But it did not end as despair.
But lately their tone has changed from despair to gleeful gloating.
Examples of efficient ways of combo-ing with her toolkit involve multi-directional attacks (Moondance, Flow: Sacred Dance), vertical slices (Cymbidium), and mobile reaches (Three Point Stipple, Spring Breeze, Blooming Nether Flower, Bridled Despair).
Explaining that his body is “still weak,” Ozzy Osbourne shared his despair at “disappointing” fans.
Featuring a range of media, including painting, installation art, video, photography, poetry and performance, the exhibition highlights feelings of despair, abandonment, and community.
For instance, if you go for red flowers for a funeral party, things might turn out in utter despair for the people attending the occasion, and it can be disrespectful to the particular culture.
For out of the ashes of despair, brutality, cynicism and strife of yesteryears has emerged this pillar of freedom, democracy, justice and hope.
He said most of those living in the villages that are currently had already abandoned their villages and are living in a state of despair.
Common combinations with despair
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of despair 38×
- and despair 35×
- despair and 23×
- in despair 15×
- to despair 15×
- the despair 12×
- despair that 10×
- despair at 9×
- despair in 8×
- despair of 7×