despond in a sentence

Examples

1. He tumbles into the Slough of Despond, where " the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, " and confronts the Giant Despair.
2. Our Teddy is Miles Raymond ( Paul Giamatti ), a San Diego wine fanatic and unsuccessful novelist who's two years divorced and mired in the slough of despond.
3. Moynihan thanked his colleague from Connecticut for " saying what needed to be said and saying it in a manner that gives us hope at a time of profound despond ."
4. The first area is the Slough of Despond, originally a swampy area in Mellor's vegetable garden, now drained, paved, and used as a visitors'car park.
5. Bass player Kheer left the band before the gig at the Gibus Club, where " all major Black Metal and Death Metal gigs took place ", with Despond, Apocryphal and Flystrike.
6. My idea of Yuletide heaven is to sneak into my local cinema at 3 in the afternoon, and sink into a well of despond or naughtiness or mischief or someone else's tragedy.
7. The Melancholy gripping investors, which has knocked American industrials down by a third, has spooked investors on this side of le despond; English, French and German indexes have been clobbered harder.
8. Mountain guides who checked the concrete-encased steel water main during the night found a 29.5-foot fissure, said Pierre Desponds, production director at the Electricite Ouest Suisse power company.
9. Like the hero of " Pilgrim's Progress " ( which provides an epigraph for " Preston Falls " ), he wanders through the Slough of Despond and the Valley of Humiliation.
10. As is often the case when change is under way, the government's periodic economic reports have seemed contradictory, sending investors into raptures of euphoria or sloughs of despond, often more than once in the same week.