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How to use crestfallen in a sentence

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When I didn't say anything for a few moments, the lady shuffled her hands together, looking crestfallen.
We leave crestfallen, unsure of whether or not we have just stumbled upon the world's most mysterious recording studio.
Her dark eyes held a look so distraught and crestfallen that she didn't even notice the eeriness around her.
He was crestfallen when I said I just wanted to borrow the phone, but was kind enough to let me.
He seemed crestfallen when I confirmed that, yes, it would take an awful long time to walk.
He looked crestfallen, so I got off the bench and chased him around in a game of hide-and-seek.
The Irishman was under tremendous pressure to get Carlisle's season off to a good start and must have been crestfallen in defeat.
Critics were left to slink away with crestfallen faces, hoping no one would remember their dire predictions.
While the announcement of the results brought cheer to some, many others looked crestfallen.
He sighed and slowly stood from the couch, crestfallen eyes showing defeat.
As the cast took their curtain-calls, I sat crestfallen backstage, erasing my disguise with a make-up wipe.
But in Senegal itself, crestfallen fans trudged through quiet streets in the capital after their team's failure to reach the last four.
With little aid and no roof over their head, these crestfallen people are facing the worst nightmare of their lives.
But we must have looked so crestfallen that she smiled and gave us a toffee each.
On that score, as long as I have him on the line, I feel it's my duty to bust his chops a bit on behalf of crestfallen kids everywhere.
When the anchorwoman for the German 4x100 relay drops the baton with a big lead, he is crestfallen.
As the two lovers watched their most precious treasure, they couldn't help but grow crestfallen.
Dominic Grieve, the newly-appointed shadow home secretary, was crestfallen when a corporation hireling mistook him for the Labour MP, Keith Vaz.
The crestfallen Italians may not have appreciated the irony of conceding a goal to the Palermo striker.
Sure, he can put on an accent, look suitably crestfallen and let those tear ducts well up like a true champ, but is he really the third greatest actor in the history of film?
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Examples from Classical Literature
Somewhat crestfallen, the striking pair repaired to the bowhead saloon to discuss the situation over a glass of beer.
Decidedly crestfallen, they bade the policeman goodbye and returned to the iceboat.
It appeared to my crestfallen perception that he meant to keep the window all to himself.
I was bitterly cast down, crestfallen, numbed with the blow of her refusal.
And, crestfallen, she went along the passages, and once more out into floodgate Street.
Tom Gray looked immensely relieved, Grace thought, in spite of his crestfallen, hangdog air.
Having exhausted his powers of suasion in vain, he left her to think over it, and sallied forth crestfallen.
Archie, crestfallen, sneaked out of the orangery on her errand.
The baboo entered, limp and crestfallen, in charge of two stablemen.
O'Rourke's crestfallen air stirred the sympathetic Souza's pity.
It is rumored that Prince Vasili played a very despicable part in this affair and that he returned to Petersburg quite crestfallen.
Dow remained with the seafaring man, looking crestfallen and unhappy.
Our men crouched about the decks here and there with anxious, crestfallen faces, all turned one way to watch the chaser.
They remained about the camp all night, but at daylight returned, baffled and crestfallen, to their homes, with nothing but smoke for their pains.
Irish trainer Tom Dreaper was crestfallen, as there is no equivalent rule in his native county to prevent remounting and he would have scooped the pounds 4,000 prize-money.
He gathered himself up and sneaked off, crushed and crestfallen.
Poor Passepartout, quite crestfallen, followed his master without a word.
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