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Despairs is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Despairs in a sentence

Related words

Despairs | Despair | Despairing | Despaired

Despairs meaning

third-person singular simple present indicative of despair

Using Despairs

  • The main meaning on this page is: third-person singular simple present indicative of despair
  • In the example corpus, despairs often appears in combinations such as: despairs at, despairs that, he despairs.

Context around Despairs

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 19.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 5 start, 2 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations

Often before:

woman 1× kakar 1× solomon 1× hopes 1× eventually 1× papageno 1×

Often after:

prides 1×

Sentence patterns with Despairs

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

abused woman despairs while her 1× and eventually despairs 1× because he despairs not only 1× biologist often despairs 1× failing he despairs 1× for them despairs of finding 1× he also despairs that he 1× kakar despairs at the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

antonio has taken 1× candide the impressionable 1× children play hide 1× he also despairs 1× kakar despairs at 1× papageno despairs at 1×

Common sentence endings:

and eventually despairs 1× aria quartet papagena 1× biologist often despairs 1× dramas could not 1× during her escapades 1× failing he despairs 1×

Words around Despairs

Just before it in the word index:

despairingly 3 despairing 43 despaired 21 despair 574 despain 5 despacito 8

Just after it in the word index:

despard 9 despatch 27 despatched 43 despatches 7 despatching 3 despatie 3

Similar in corpus frequency:

aadi 14 aayush 14 abbottabad 14 aberdonian 14 abhi 14 aborting 14

Corpus analysis for Despairs

  • In this selection, "despairs" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 19.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, woman, kakar, solomon and prides stand out and add context to how "despairs" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include abused woman despairs while her and and eventually despairs. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "despairs" sits close to words such as aadi, aayush and abbottabad, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with despairs

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Wanting to be everything, and inevitably failing, he despairs. (9 words)

Kakar despairs at the plight of Afghans who remain in Pakistan. (11 words)

Witnessing environmental impacts in her work every day, the presenter and biologist often despairs. (14 words)

Longer example sentences

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. (30 words)

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. (30 words)

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. (28 words)

Exclamation examples

Papageno despairs at having lost Papagena and decides to hang himself (Aria/Quartet: "Papagena! (14 words)

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.

Common combinations with despairs

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "despairs" in a sentence?
An example: "In one, an abused woman despairs while her child looks out on an idyllic scene of maples hung with sap buckets." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "despairs" from authentic English texts.
What does "despairs" mean?
Despairs means: third-person singular simple present indicative of despair
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