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Despairs meaning
third-person singular simple present indicative of despair
Example sentences (11)
In one, an abused woman despairs while her child looks out on an idyllic scene of maples hung with sap buckets.
Kakar despairs at the plight of Afghans who remain in Pakistan.
With each passing year, Solomon despairs that his chances to regain his freedom are slipping away until he finally meets someone willing to risk their own life to help him.
Witnessing environmental impacts in her work every day, the presenter and biologist often despairs.
Children play hide and seek in the garden but the person looking for them despairs of finding them.
The series became a worldwide phenomenon as it used socially conscious storytelling to explore humanity’s hopes, despairs, prides and prejudices in metaphoric ways conventional dramas could not.
Antonio has taken this potentially fatal turn because he despairs, not only over the loss of Bassanio in marriage, but also because Bassanio cannot requite what Antonio feels for him.
Candide, the impressionable and incompetent student of Pangloss, often tries to justify evil, fails, invokes his mentor and eventually despairs.
He also despairs that he must fix the things that she continuously breaks during her escapades.
Papageno despairs at having lost Papagena and decides to hang himself (Aria/Quartet: "Papagena!
Wanting to be everything, and inevitably failing, he despairs.