How to Use dejected in a Sentence

dejected

adjective

• The dejected players left the field.
• Ranz, who was once elated by the case’s prospects, now seemed dejected.
  — Matías Costa, Smithsonian, 28 June 2018
• That maybe feel dejected from life and feel that everything has kind of come to a halt for them.
  — Vikki Ortiz, chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2018
• Chris felt dejected knowing that Nayte had nabbed the final one-on-one date.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 16 Nov. 2021
• They weren’t helped by four fumbles, and there were times when everyone in white just looked dejected.
  — Jack Schmelzinger, The Enquirer, 27 Aug. 2022
• Mckenzie was so dejected that a friend had to trick her into showing up to say goodbye.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 July 2022
• The images of the lanky youths, handcuffed and dejected, went viral.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 27 June 2017
• The dejected Humboldt team trudged off the ice after one of the great games in recent league annals.
  — Peter King, SI.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• For a long time, Helen Kingston had noticed that a lot of her patients seemed dejected.
  — Jenny Anderson, Quartz, 3 Dec. 2019
• King was clearly dejected, as the rest of Beauharnais' teammates were waiting for the ball come a halt.
  — Chris Sims, Indianapolis Star, 10 Feb. 2020
• So the Cleveland fans streamed out of the Q, dejected but not despairing.
  — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• Some of those callers actually came in to see the dog heads for themselves, only to leave dejected.
  — Tim Rohan, SI.com, 24 Jan. 2018
• Penn State could come out dejected after losing against Ohio State.
  — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 3 Nov. 2017
• Westbeld spent the first half in the training room and then limped onto the court after halftime, looking dejected.
  — Laken Litman, Indianapolis Star, 16 Mar. 2018
• The dejected actor stumbles over to a marketplace to buy a drink, shoplift a lighter, and strike out with a lottery ticket.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 3 Sep. 2025
• The players' dejected expressions are in stark contrast to the elated fans in the stands behind them.
  — Noel Brennan, CBS News, 10 Feb. 2026
• The Blues went in at half time looking dejected, while the travelling fans were in sombre spirits.
  — SI.com, 13 May 2018
• The two were making their dejected way home but, having missed their respective flights, were hunkering down for the night.
  — David Margolick, Time, 5 June 2018
• The postgame news conference felt like a funeral, with muted voices and dejected faces.
  — Chris Vannini, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2026
• The final score glowed on the scoreboard, as dejected Legion players, some of them bloodied, lay on the grass, spent.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2019
• But all the outrage still left Hernandez, the mother, dejected.
  — Lomi Kriel, Houston Chronicle, 1 June 2018
• As for the Bengals, Esterkamp remains a homer, though often a dejected one.
  — Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• Those dejected fans can find solace in the words of K-pop idols, some of whom preach about the importance of acceptance and self-worth.
  — Mitchell McCluskey, CNN Money, 22 Mar. 2026
• And later, a dejected Montag talks to her husband Pratt about trying to have a second child.
  — Natalie Morin, refinery29.com, 14 Apr. 2021
• In the locker room, Invisigal is clearing out her stuff, feeling dejected.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 13 Nov. 2025
• Oldham County's Sam Powell walked out of the locker room with a dejected look on his face.
  — J.l. Kirven, The Courier-Journal, 11 June 2022
• And in the middle of it all are the fans, who are heartbroken or dejected or weary or in some way suffering, victims of a litany of injustices.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020
• The New York Post’s front page shows de Blasio in a bridal gown, sitting dejected on an altar.
  — Monique O. Madan, miamiherald, 2 Mar. 2018
• Or among quiet, dejected fans as the Mavericks blew their lead and lost to the Rockets in overtime in that opener.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2020
• After a brief cooldown period in the locker room, the Hoosiers returned to the bench and slumped there, defeated and dejected.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 24 Feb. 2018