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disillusion - use in sentences
Object
- voter: From across the social spectrum, disillusioned voters turned to Nick Griffin's party, believing they offered a realistic chance for change.
- soldier: In 1975 several PPU members faced a ten-week trial for distributing leaflets telling soldiers disillusioned with Northern Ireland duties how they might leave.
- bit: The trainee is also a bit disillusioned by the lack of pupil responses in the classroom.
- man: Like many disillusioned young men in Weimar Germany, he joined the Nazi Party in May 1932.
Subject
- lack: Having been somewhat disillusioned by a lack of courtesy on the part of certain Chicago car dealers, I shopped in the suburbs.
Adjective modifier
- widespread: The result was that, despite widespread popular disillusion with New Labor this June, we failed to move public opinion our way.
Modifying Another Word
- increasingly: I have got increasingly disillusioned with Blair's stance on Iraq.
- sadly: Bruch died a sadly disillusioned man, one who had simply lived too long.
- utterly: For me, it was the year I became utterly disillusioned with politics.
- deeply: There were debates with people who were deeply disillusioned with New Labor who want to see it punished at the polls.
- thoroughly: Soon, however, thoroughly disillusioned with the Party system, he left the House of Commons for ever.
- somewhat: Having been somewhat disillusioned by a lack of courtesy on the part of certain Chicago car dealers, I shopped in the suburbs.
Used with why or when
- when: However, as with the others, he soon grew bitterly disillusioned when the promises of James vanished into thin air.
Preposition: with
- politics: He said: " The electorate feels disillusioned with the politics on offer.
- politician: Voters disillusioned with established politicians are turning to the United Kingdom Independence Party rather than to the left.
- party: The BNP is attracting the support of voters disillusioned with the main political parties.
- government: In 1959, the Mosul garrison, disillusioned with the new government, organized a revolt against Qassem.
- life: Carver and his friends soon became disillusioned with life in their new home.
Preposition: by
- lack: Having been somewhat disillusioned by a lack of courtesy on the part of certain Chicago car dealers, I shopped in the suburbs.
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