How to Use depressed in a Sentence

depressed

adjective
  • He was depressed about having to return to school.
  • The rainy weather had her feeling lonely and depressed.
  • The patient has a somewhat depressed appetite.
  • Prices have remained at a depressed level.
  • The new drug is being tested on a group of severely depressed patients.
  • In the show, Sorokin is seen drinking and depressed, and begs Williams not to leave.
    Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The edges will be matte and the pancake should spring back when lightly depressed in the center.
    Anita L. Arambula, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2023
  • Many despaired, saying the change had left them depressed and adrift.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2023
  • All three of us sat on our beds or on chairs Feeling much too depressed to go up or down stairs.
    Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Some people who are depressed are very good at hiding it.
    Gregory Scott Brown, Men's Health, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Smiles crack easy for him, softening a face that was once famous as the leathery, tight-as-a-fist mug of the depressed and dour Max Payne.
    Gene Park, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2023
  • That fraction is now closer to three in ten, but that's still a lot of depressed, anxious people.
    Josh Fischman, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Morita said his faith in God, which has grown in recent years, has kept him from getting depressed.
    CBS News, 14 Apr. 2023
  • Karen Gillan plays Louise, an aimless and depressed musician in her 20s struggling to get past a painful breakup.
    Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Exercising may be the last thing on a depressed person’s mind, though.
    Jordyn Bradley, Fortune Well, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Woke up feeling not great, a little anxious and depressed.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Across all ages, over a fifth of adults – and more than a third of those under 30 – reported feeling anxious or depressed.
    USA TODAY, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The stretch in which Chris is depressed is some of the comic superstar’s most real-feeling screen acting.
    Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Sammy’s father, Burt (Paul Dano), is depressed and adrift.
    Malina Saval, Variety, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The central issue: how the ascension of streaming brought more content and depressed pay.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Except now, the fear is empty office buildings, not the depressed value of bonds banks are sitting on.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
  • If a student is depressed or suicidal, these teams need to be informed.
    Marcela Rodrigues, Dallas News, 24 May 2023
  • Chow declined to rise to the bait when questioned about the currently depressed state of the Korean box office and the rise of streaming services.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
  • First, the medicine enters the brain's prefrontal cortex and simply gets to work by fixing the parts that get broken when someone is depressed.
    Aubree Nichols, ELLE, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Doug Brien was part of the wave of new buyers who in the years after the housing bust built rental empires by scooping up tens of thousands of homes when prices were still depressed.
    Ben Casselman, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Through the roof Gross operating profits at hotels hit a new record last year, while staffing was still depressed.
    Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2023
  • If a depressed teen goes to therapy and gets well, her providers can document a clear trend of recovery.
    Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Film shoots With the actors’ strike still in full effect, film and television production was still depressed as of last week.
    Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • The Weeknd has become one of the biggest pop stars in the world, mostly without abandoning his commitment to the depressed and depraved.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 14 May 2023
  • Traders rotated into the sector and swooped in on depressed pricing.
    Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2023

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