How to Use disillusion in a Sentence

disillusion

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  • Over the years, disillusion set in, and the dream collapsed in the 1990s.
    — Tony Perrottet, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
  • She’s had problems with the church for a while, but events that happened in the past year magnified her disillusion.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 May 2021
  • The clerics might see his candidacy as a way to get out the vote at a time of widespread disillusion with the status quo.
    — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Reasons for disillusion include the slow pace of reconstruction and the lack of jobs.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • Britain is caught in a dangerous cycle of disillusion and anger.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • That includes, under the direction of Lear deBessonet, plenty of humor to go along with the inevitable heartache and disillusion.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The result is a moving group portrait of disillusion and resilience.
    — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Each succeeding decade has come to an end with its own record of disillusion and bewilderment.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • The amount of hyperbole and disillusion about the metaverse is astounding.
    — Nina Xiang, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Coaches across the City said that the lack of care is another sign of a lack of support that disillusions prospective parents, which leads to enrollment somewhere else.
    — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
  • That Jackson, a 66-year-old Dothan native who has seen enough politics to drive most people to despair and disillusion, believed it all along.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 13 June 2023
  • For some who supported Mr. Navalny, the outcome was a stark disillusion.
    — Neil MacFarquhar, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2018
  • And yet, whatever celebrations take place this week, will be muted and take place against the backdrop of disillusion and divide.
    — Fox News Staff, Fox News, 4 July 2022
  • In a way, the artist hasn’t necessarily earned such an extreme rape scene, but exploits the shock in order to make her point about the way a blissfully naive child learns to confront the dangers and disillusion of the adult world.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 June 2022
  • But her songs are full of dark stories of convoluted love, nihilistic disillusion and pain.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 27 Nov. 2019
  • It’s also because the U.S. empire itself breeds distrust, anger, and disillusion abroad.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 17 May 2022
  • The artist hasn’t necessarily earned such an extreme rape scene, instead treating it as a device by which to make her point about the way a blissfully naive child learns to confront the dangers and disillusion of the adult world.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 12 June 2022
  • Registers of loss and disillusion are blended, from the individual to the national and back again.
    — Dustin Illingworth, latimes.com, 31 May 2018
  • Under the first-past-the-post system, better adapted to two dominant parties, the make-up of Parliament may bear little relation to the national breakdown of the poll, adding to the disillusion of voters.
    — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Laconic disillusion was a hallmark of the era, but Dubus’s stories tend to be crowded and argumentative.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018
  • Darkness at Noon, published in 1940, is the lasting monument to his disillusion with Communism.
    — Douglas Murray, National Review, 30 Oct. 2017
  • In all its guises, the centre is falling victim to voters’ disillusion with a political class that has lost the idealism bestowed by the democratic transitions of the 1980s and now looks self-serving and out-of-touch.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • His own trauma, disillusion, and secrets contribute to some welcome plot tension, which Kait and her primary squadmate Del must contend with.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 30 Aug. 2019
  • And as with any religion, this opens up a host of dramatic situations — of apostasy and betrayal, doubt and disillusion.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • With authentic clips from old audition tapes and a slow-burn plot that escalates as the past unfurls, audiences can expect themes of competition, regret, longing and disillusion to emerge through each of the show’s six episodes.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Critics and celebrators have stressed the accuracy of her predictions, her place in Black American letters, and her knack for disillusion.
    — Stephanie Burt, The New Republic, 27 May 2021
  • Disillusion with the political class is one reason given for what is likely to be a record low participation rate that could outdo the record low in last Sunday’s first round, measured at 43 percent — five points lower than last week.
    — Sylvie Corbet, The Denver Post, 18 June 2017
  • The inability to restrain or redirect this disillusion proved fatal for the Soviet Union.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • In their zealous quest to ride the PR coattails of front row lion-wearer Kylie Jenner, the animal rights group wasted momentum amidst a rare moment of united disillusion among vegans and omnivores alike.
    — Blythe Marks, Vogue, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Knowledge, in this play, is an ever-churning system of unveiling and subsequent disillusion.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2022
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disillusion

2 of 2 verb
  • Working at that store for six months was enough to disillusion me about retail work.
  • The fact is, nobody felt disillusioned — people liked the idea that the show was full of fakery.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The goal is to disillusion us about ourselves, and to build kinship.
    — Gaiutra Bahadur, The New Republic, 25 Nov. 2020
  • What's more, consumers disillusioned with the slowdown may be even less inclined to upgrade in the months ahead.
    — Michael Liedtke, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2018
  • At the end, having been disillusioned by the dreams and the tales of heroism that had sustained him, Arturo leaves the island behind him.
    — Lily Tuck, WSJ, 22 Feb. 2019
  • Despite being warned that the aliens intend to invade and conquer Earth, Ye responds to the message and invites them to do so, disillusioned by the state of the world.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
  • And as with Vietnam and Iraq, the results were costly and disillusioning.
    — Andrew J. Bacevich, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • There are men who hustle, men who disillusion their women, and men who lie — to themselves as much as others.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2022
  • That killing was believed to have been carried out by members of a splinter group who had grown disillusioned with the leadership of Shabazz.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Brazile shed more light on the DNC’s fairly obvious bias toward Clinton, which left many on the left disillusioned with the party.
    — Margaret Hartmann, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Nov. 2017
  • The Penan have been forced into settlements, Manser is dead, Palmieri disillusioned.
    — National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Kanye West didn’t sound this disillusioned with rap stardom until at least his fifth album.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Vaughters finds himself on the outs, disillusioned with Postal’s frat-party culture and looking for a way to stop doping.
    — Bill Gifford, Outside Online, 24 July 2019
  • If you're disillusioned by all the options marketed to you, Hipple adds, make a costume for yourself or your child.
    — Alia E. Dastagir, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2017
  • They were disillusioned when U.S. military might wasn’t deployed to force him out.
    — Henry Meyer, Bloomberg.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • His campaign wasn’t well financed, and his platform focused on the fight against corruption, a stance many Guatemalans have become disillusioned with over the past decade.
    — Jody García, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2024
  • He is similarly disillusioned in Norway, while making a trip with his wife to see the Northern Lights.
    — Jennifer Senior, New York Times, 15 May 2016
  • But after becoming disillusioned with Fury and her father’s failure to secure the Skrull a new home, G’iah rebels.
    — Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2023
  • Long before the birth of my daughter, Sophie, last spring, I was disillusioned with the American way of parenting.
    — Gordy Megroz, Outside Online, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Some protesters said they were disillusioned with the failure to stop the assembly from taking office despite four months of protests and more than 120 deaths.
    — Ryan Dube, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2017
  • Nielsen, the biologist, said this spring that she was disillusioned with Murkowski.
    — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Susan Hanford was among the Trump voters in 2016 who are disillusioned today.
    — Kate Shepherd, Chicago Reader, 6 Feb. 2018
  • In the midst of a move, Raymonde took the time out to find his phone in a packing box and speak to Billboard about the Lost Horizons sessions and the (slim) chances of him waking up feeling disillusioned by a changing industry.
    — Zane Warman, Billboard, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Unsure what to make of the latest iteration of the F.N., or simply disillusioned with its competitors, some people figure, Why not put it to the test?
    — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 8 May 2017
  • But then there’s something about becoming disillusioned with the present and the future, and then looking back and trying to become nostalgic about things.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Oct. 2023
  • But if the affair was all in her imagination, why should distance disillusion her?
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • Some organizers are in prison, others have gone into exile, and the rest have given up, as disillusioned with the rebellion as many Alawites are with the regime.
    — The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2019
  • But don't be misled: America's men, like characters in the 1999 film Fight Club, continue to grow disillusioned with work.
    — Joseph W. Sullivan, National Review, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Roberts said the whole series of events encouraged but also slightly disillusioned him.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • And like many other Americans, Krausse and Wassenaar have become disillusioned with both major parties and are dreading an apparent rematch this fall.
    — USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2024

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