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crestfallen - use in sentences
Modifying Another Word
- rather: I figure to myself he ought to be better, he looks rather crestfallen about the low notes still warbling.
- little: He looks shocked at the suggestion, and a little crestfallen.
- understandably: He looked understandably crestfallen as he made his way off the 18th green.
- quite: Poor Passepartout, quite crestfallen, followed his master without a word.
Used with adjective complement
- look: I figure to myself he ought to be better, he looks rather crestfallen about the low notes still warbling.
- feel: LIBRA Sep 24 - Oct 23 OK, you've had enough of feeling crestfallen.
Modifies a noun
- face: The crestfallen face of Ronnie Massarella summed up the whole British showjumping effort.
- look: He came back to his companions at night with crestfallen looks, having wasted one ball and one charge of powder.
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