dispiriting in a sentence

Examples

1. The entire year has been dispiriting for Sampras.
2. Presumably their careers will survive this dispiriting setback.
3. Things grew ugly and dispiriting in a 2-0 exhibition loss to Hungary.
4. These are strange and dispiriting times in Moscow.
5. But he acknowledges the results have been dispiriting.
6. Vang Pao landed back at Long Tieng in the wake of this dispiriting disaster.
7. Even in strictly economic terms, the last, wasted year has been deeply dispiriting.
8. The lack of interest is not only baffling, it is dispiriting, Maffeo said.
9. Despite the variety of musical styles, there was a dispiriting sameness to his singing.
10. But the approach is not unduly dispiriting.