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How to use despair in a sentence

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When fear, despair, anger or sadness threaten, all you have to do is compose a short sentence and she'll be right.
Gary Howlett lets out a howl of despair in the jacks when he discovers there's no toilet paper.
Certainly the abysmal suffering and despair in many poor countries should cause us sickening guilt.
As many as 750 children have been rescued by Vathsalya from the jaws of despair, and perhaps death, some of them only a few months old.
We all can trust in the words of the Lord as he brings hope in place of despair and light in place of darkness.
It is a performance of restrained frustration and quiet despair, coupled with the type of calculated ruthlessness befitting a killer.
They despair of the moral decline and the ugly brutishness that characterise much of urban Britain.
A Selby pensioner and his sister have expressed their anger and despair after their house was burgled.
She was quiet, the depression and despair radiating from her body in a way that was painful just to be near.
For translators, the radical differences between Chinese and English are a source of despair and opportunity.
At times optimism fails and I fall face first into the deep well of despair.
A sinking feeling of despair welled up within her, threatening to swamp her completely.
Exam results day may bring jubilation or despair to thousands of Swindon youngsters next month.
Added to this sense of despair was the unasked question about how long women must keep demanding justice and fair play.
He is a man who has a very successful record in real estate, but he is also a man who has experienced the depths of despair.
Already depressed about his marriage, the whispers and false rumours saw Temple plunge into despair, and ultimately suicide.
Our capacity for savagery grows as rational thought is overwhelmed by fear, despair, and anger.
In fact, I was beginning to despair that I would have to ride some half-bred draft horse.
The father gives up in despair and then, by a miraculous stroke of luck, he spots the bicycle thief and pursues him into a brothel.
This engenders despair that can develop into anger and aggression and eventually explode into violence.
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