5 sentences with 'despair'
Example sentences and phrases with the word despair and other words derived from it.
• « For surviving soldiers around the world, the psychological damage of years of carnage and despair left wounds as crippling as those inflicted by poison gas and artillery attacks. »
• « Existentialists called living in this way "authenticity" - a kind of courageous defiance of the despair of being alive without higher purpose or meaning. »
• « My husband, Lynn, and I had led a "life of mute despair" behind the façade of our supposed marital success. »
• « At the age of 21, Stephen Hawking was told he had only two and a half years to live. In despair, he shut himself off from the world to await death. »
• « Whatever results appear on your health family tree, consider them a cause for hope, not despair. »