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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