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How to use the word dismayed in a Sentence?

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Mount Sinai is dismayed by NYSNA’s reckless actions, the union is jeopardizing patients’ care, and it’s forcing valued Mount Sinai nurses to choose between their dedication to patient care and their own livelihoods.

Mount Sinai

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Residence are feeling dismayed, obviously. There's a general feeling of fear, whether it's perception or reality just because of the numbers we're seeing, our homicides have been trending slightly downward, but … we're still seeing a vast number of shootings.

Danielle Outlaw

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

They said,' Be not dismayed,' they're turning over every stone, looking at any civil rights charges on behalf of Breonna Taylor, because they would do the same for any citizen. Because Breonna Taylor deserves it.

Benjamin Crump

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Simply put, the traffic stop was by the books, what happened afterwards was anything but, I’m dismayed and disappointed by the state representative’s response to the stop. Rather than taking responsibility for his own decisions and actions, he attempted to deflect, cast aspersions and deny any wrongdoing.

Paul Police Chief Todd Axtellto

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For years, the same hedge funds, private equity firms, and wealthy investors dismayed by the GameStop trades have treated the stock market like their own personal casino while everyone else pays the price, it’s long past time for the SEC and other financial regulators to wake up and do their jobs.

Elizabeth Warren

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I'm so dismayed by weak-kneed Republicans that will not stand up to this, that won't be the strong voice that we need.

Bill Hagerty

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Let me clear what I said. I said that I condemned, and we as the United Kingdom, condemn all violence and that people who supported the pro-democracy demonstrators would have been very dismayed by the scenes they saw.

Jeremy Hunt

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

People are astonished and amazed and dismayed at what they see coming out of Washington these days from liberal crazy clowns. Socialism. Open borders. Infanticide. 90% tax rates. Having prison inmates vote. It goes on and on, and of course, most of all, an incessant drive to impeach the president.

Dan Bishop

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Let me just say, I'm very, very dismayed and disappointed that the chief law enforcement officer of our country is going off the rails yesterday and today, he is attorney general of the United States of America, not the attorney general of Donald Trump.

Nancy Pelosi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I am dismayed because this controversy might have been avoided entirely, had it been handled differently. I am dismayed because, as has been the case throughout Birmingham's history, people of good will behaved reflexively, rather than engaging in meaningful discourse over their differences and seeking common ground, throughout my life, I have been a person who tries to see and understand all reasonable points of view on any given issue. As mayor, I believe that quality is an essential part of my job, a means of encouraging interchange and forging the consensus necessary to arrive at fair and workable solutions to any issue or opportunity that confronts us as a city.

Randall Woodfin

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I’m equally shocked and dismayed by this event that mocks such a cherished and honorable occasion, this action goes against our very foundation.

Scott Rice

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I am dismayed thatThe New Yorkerhas decided to characterize a respectful relationship with a woman I dated as somehow inappropriate, i am sorry to my friends, workplace colleagues, and loved ones for any embarrassment this episode may cause. I loveThe The New Yorker... But this decision, which was made hastily and without a full investigation of the relevant facts, was a terrible mistake.

Ryan Lizza

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

You can usually tell how dismayed he is by his volume, by the level of insults, and typically, when he attacks someone's faith, it is a sign that Donald is really worried, i understand the last election day, Super Saturday, was a very bad day for Donald. He came in proudly expecting to sweep all four contests. Instead, he got clobbered. He got clobbered on election day.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I am very dismayed at the accessibility of some of these networks... They are just hanging right off the tubes.

Marty Edwards

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I am very dismayed at the accessibility of some of these networks... they are just hanging right off the tubes.

Marty Edwards

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Today we are dismayed to see how in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world many of our brothers and sisters are persecuted, tortured and killed for their faith in Jesus, in this third world war, waged piecemeal, which we are now experiencing, a form of genocide is taking place, and it must end.

Pope Francis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I had no inkling whatsoever, i was as shocked and dismayed by the reports that I read as anyone else around here.

John Boehner

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I was dismayed to see the interpretation put on our motives, our judgments and our actions, there is nothing in the history of our sport in the last 15 or 20 years other than us being on the cutting edge of either trying to develop the science of weeding out the cheats or taking the actions appropriate to finding them.

Sebastian Coe

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are stunned ! Shocked ! Wounded, broken and dismayed. But we know one thing for sure... they are in glory in the loving arms of our King Jesus !

Lead Pastor James Ludlow

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We love drive-in movies, frozen yogurt, dates to IKEA and trips to the beach. we are stunned ! Shocked ! Wounded, broken and dismayed. But we know one thing for sure... they are in glory in the loving arms of our King Jesus !

Lead Pastor James Ludlow

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I am shocked, dismayed and deeply disappointed that allegations of this nature have arisen on our campus, i expect all of our students, regardless of whether they belong to a Greek organization, to understand the obligations they have as members of our community.

University President Renu Khator

Found on CNN
9 years ago

I'm dismayed by what happened.

Edgardo Casana

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on this divine journey, which is the royal road to heaven. By taking this road we gain such precious treasures that it is no wonder if the cost seems to us a high one. The time will come when we shall realize that all we have paid has been nothing at all by comparison with the greatness of our prizes.

Teresa of Ávila

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Baltasar Gracian

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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