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How to use dismay in a sentence

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On the right, there is general dismay over the slow pace of decommunisation and the emergence of corrupt links between politics and business.
To my dismay, but not utter shock, Jim was sitting at the table with his coffee and paper.
Kourin watched in dismay as Kellan turned about and began walking towards the mountains.
History tutors also express dismay at their students' lack of language skills, which means that all foreign texts have to be translated.
As city after city was blitzed, there was some dismay, a little looting but, overall, a remarkable stoicism and sense of community.
The ball took a slight bounce, however, and ended in the corner of the net to the keeper's dismay.
This was, to the dismay of many a news-gatherer in the room, to be the evening's persistent refrain.
I have gone through financial ruin, personal vilification, the distress and dismay of my family.
To their dismay, the unions may find that many non-union workers will refuse to pay the service fee or join the union.
Hip culture has embraced this linguistic byplay wholeheartedly, often to the dismay of those who can't quite figure it out.
To my dismay, the boys tell me the stint was just a one-shot deal and they won't be setting up any Yellow residencies.
The movie opens with childhood friends Rafe and Danny pretending to be pilots, to the dismay of Danny's hayseed father.
It could have expressed dismay at Pringle's obvious lack of race awareness, censured him, and sent him on a training course.
Referee Clive Owen pointed to the spot without hesitation, to the dismay of the Lismore crowd.
The tide was out and to my dismay I found the beach a disgrace and an indictment on our society.
You have to make a study of my behavior, such as a spouse will do, much to your dismay at times.
To my dismay and horror, he ripped the sweater apart in order to better access to my chest.
She has expressed dismay that so many politicians have their eyes on a career at European level and see national parliaments as an obstacle.
We have learned to our dismay how quick government officials are to classify information, even when it is already in the public domain.
As defeatism spread from meetings and rallies into the social clubs of the wealthy and renowned, the Unionist patriciate expressed dismay.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Eleazar and his followers at once fled, in dismay, to the vaults under the Temple.
He appealed to Zinzendorf, and found to his dismay that the Count was as depraved as the rest.
A soundless gasp, a flash of dismay rocked him, but neither was his gasp nor his dismay.
He returned disappointed, with a tale that sowed dismay in Fenzileh and Marzak.
And it was with a child's look of pitiful dismay and perplexity that he faced the sheriff.
That night there was blank dismay in every Avonlea house where an improver lived.
May stopped in the middle of a stitch, and stared at him with something akin to dismay.
Rameses did not observe the Regent's dismay, for he had signed to Mena to come closer to him.
He perceived with dismay that the stratagem of his defence had given Anne away.
He journeyed to Cape Ann and found, to his dismay, that she was no longer there.
She was looking about her on all sides, in a fidget of annoyance, searching for him, and to his dismay she saw him.
She also purchased a box of paints, and while Mrs. Laue clasped her hands in dismay, she set to painting bravely.
Gladys gave a little shriek of dismay as Daisy thrust her parasol into a laurustinus.
They are barren, till the imagination has tenanted them with possibilities of danger and dismay.
It was an impossible run, and the left-hander stood, in startled dismay, a few steps outside the crease.
Old rollock's dismay was so comical that I could scarce find in my heart to ease his mind, as I did.
He was well dressed in a lounge suit and black bowler hat, but, to the valet's surprise and dismay, wore a mask over his face.
In his dismay he hastened to Luella for sympathy, but she turned up missing.
Christina pursued her walk in dismay at this new beginning of freebooting in its worst form, overthrowing all her hopes.
Peggy let fall the ox-eyed daisy whose petals she had been counting, and turned toward him in dismay.
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