chagrin造句

To Nitze's chagrin, the apprentice had disobeyed the sorcerer.

Screen time is routinely limited, much to the chagrin of their keyboard-pounding offspring.

PowerPoint is already ubiquitous within the Army — to the chagrin of many an officer.

But to Mr Mubarak's chagrin the vast crowds of detractors gathered in Egypt's streets proved implacable.

To the chagrin of some traders, Amazon is distinctly NOT "maximizing near-term profits" - it is sacrificing near-term profits.

To Ms. McNeill’s chagrin, several students, most of them boys, stubbornly refused to read more challenging fare.

She returned to East Germany by subterfuge, to the chagrin of the authorities who had hoped to lose her.

I realized, to my chagrin, that I had entered the ranks of the poor. Not that I'd ever been rich.

To the chagrin of old-school sceptics, nation-building is now an integral part of American strategy.

To Brazil's chagrin, China helped block its bid for a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council, while India did much to stop a world-trade deal.

And, to Syrian chagrin, the biggest press patron of all was Rafik Hariri, the billionaire politician whose assassination sparked the recent protests.

They want universities to admit more of them; policies intended to force them to will be unveiled later this month-to the chagrin of many Tories.

Each PC has its own version of various corporate software, and possibly personal software loaded by individual users-much to the chagrin of the it department.

In her own past behaviour, there was a constant source of vexation and regret; and in the unhappy defects of her family a subject of yet heavier chagrin.

The job, which involved the transcription of oral history tapes, had about it a quality of penance that suited me, though after a time I discovered to my chagrin that I was having fun.

Next day it all came out, sadly to my chagrin; and still I was not altogether sorry: I thought the burden of directing and warning would be more efficiently borne by him than me.

To broaden the all-ages appeal of How to Train Your Dragon, the directors turned Hiccup into a brainy teen who lacks the killer instinct, much to the chagrin of his burly Viking chief father.