(a.) With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed.
(a.) Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were crestfallen at the end, Van Buyten departing the arena close to tears with this surely the 36-year-old’s last involvement at a major finals.
(2) England's crestfallen players returned to their training complex at Royal Bafokeng, outside Rustenburg, on Sunday evening having suffered their worst ever defeat at the World Cup at the Free State stadium.
(3) Looking crestfallen, Andrew Mitchell stood on the steps of the high court and signalled that he would be ending his campaign to clear his name over the Plebgate incident as he emerged from the high court after losing his libel trial.
(4) Ferguson's reaction is, as yet, unknown, although it is safe to assume the manager is crestfallen at the latest developments.
(5) Slightly crestfallen, I returned to the questionnaire and left the box unticked.
(6) The sight of Chelsea's crestfallen players proved as much, their inability to convert when chances had been eked out in the first period proved critical as the Peruvian Paolo Guerrero, once a Bayern Munich player, registered the only goal midway through the second period.
(7) With their dreams shattered, dejected members of the SNP and other parties in the yes camp instead listened to a crestfallen Alex Salmond concede defeat at 6.15am.
(8) Mourinho was entitled to be crestfallen because Juan Mata’s expertly taken goal, midway through the second half, had put United in command on an afternoon that finished with their manager also announcing they should officially be known as “the unlucky team in the Premier League”.
(9) The father of two had been refusing food and contracted pneumonia after he was left "crestfallen" by the court's decision.
(10) And then it shows his crestfallen kids being told daddy won't be home for Christmas.
(11) The former News of the World editor looked crestfallen in the dock as prosecutor Andrew Edis QC announced the Crown Prosecution Service’s decision.
(12) It should have been game over for City later on but Lewandowki's profligacy left the door ajar for Mancini's players and Balotelli took full advantage to leave the Dortmund players crestfallen at the end.
(13) The Argentinian had looked crestfallen earlier in the match, raising both hands to apologise after his penalty misses either side of David Silva opening the scoring.
(14) Let them manifest themselves … " She didn't get the shot as Brown manifested briskly past, but was not as disappointed as the Spanish lady who – when the PM manifested swiftly away 20 minutes later – seemed both confused and crestfallen at the contents of the vehicle.
(15) It wasn’t believed that you could trust a prisoner to act responsibly.” He looks crestfallen when I ask him how he managed to recover.
(16) Brazil’s players briefly convened in a huddle near the centre-circle at the end and, after Scolari addressed his crestfallen squad, saluted the crowd only for the boos to ring out.
(17) It was no more than United deserved on the balance of play – they enjoyed 63% of possession and had 22 shots to Albion’s eight – but it was also easy to understand why Alan Irvine’s players looked so crestfallen at the final whistle.
(18) I remember them all huddled around the bedside of a pale, hyperventilating lady and thinking how crestfallen I would have been in their shoes seeing a boy in a green tunic walking into the bay proclaiming that he was a doctor.
(19) Moments later, a crestfallen Senderos is replaced by Von Bergen.
(20) The Italian may have ended crestfallen, but the 33-year-old had been imperious in propelling the Azzurri to the final, his performances against England and Germany utterly mesmerising.
(1) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
(2) The ratio of male:female students admitted has fallen from 3.4:1 in 1968 to 1.4:1 in 1987.
(3) In Europe, for example, the basket of goods tested has fallen 18% in Greece (Corfu) to £57.50, making prices a third cheaper than Italy (Sorrento) at £87.06, the most expensive of six eurozone destinations surveyed.
(4) Shares in the bank have fallen more than 30% since Britain voted to leave the EU and the share closed on Monday at 167p, well below the 502p average price at which taxpayers bought their stake in the bank.
(5) Her predecessor, Bingu wa Mutharika, had fallen out with international donors, but Banda managed to rebuild relationships.
(6) The organizers of the protest march he participated in said the man had fallen ill before any rioting had broken out.
(7) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
(8) By the fourth injection, arachidonic acid had fallen 48% below control and was accompanied by reciprocal increases of more saturated fatty acids including linoleic (18:2), oleic (18:1) and palmitic (16:0) acids.
(9) Peacocks , the budget fashion chain, has fallen into administration, putting 9,600 jobs at risk, after a management buyout deal collapsed at the last minute.
(10) Union urges M&S to open talks about pay and pension changes Read more M&S’s shares, which have fallen more than 40% in the past year, have come under pressure as investors assess the impact of Rowe’s plans on its profitability as well as the prospect of a high street downturn following the Brexit vote.
(11) Instead, 28% have simply fallen into arrears for the first time.
(12) Only 321 birds have fallen in the first six months of this year and the project is working to minimize the death tally, according to Thomas Doyle, president of NRG’s renewable energy business.
(13) Beckham has fallen out of favour at Real this season under new coach Fabio Capello, and had previously been linked with a number of major English and European sides, including Bolton, Newcastle, Internazionale and AC Milan, as well as various Major League Soccer sides.
(14) It therefore seems inevitable that the region will have fallen back into a new recession in the third quarter And here's a summary of the data, showing that only two countries expanded: Ireland: 51.8 (2-month high) The Netherlands: 50.7 (13-month high) Germany: 47.4 (6-month high) Italy: 45.7 (6-month high) Austria: 45.1 (39-month low) Spain: 44.5 (6 month low) France: 42.7 (41-month low) Greece: 42.2 (4-month high) 9.07am BST EUROZONE RECESSION ALL BUT CERTAIN The eurozone's manufacturing sector shrank again in September, making a double-dip recession all but certain.
(15) Platelet counts had fallen by eight hours after infusion, but had reached pretransfusion levels by 24 hours.
(16) Similarly, the proportion of severe cases seems to have fallen over the last thirty years, possibly due to earlier and more aggressive treatment but more probably due to an increase in the number of minor exposures reported.
(17) Youth unemployment has fallen by 59,000 since the scheme's launch, but the low take-up of the wage incentive scheme means it can claim little credit.
(18) The prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia among Swedish women of child-bearing age has fallen markedly since the mid-1960s.
(19) At the time when the number of mitoses had fallen to a subnormal level due to galactose-feeding (i.e., after 7 days), lenses of prolactin-treated animals exhibited less of a decrease in mitotic activity.
(20) The media, smelling blood, has fallen into pack formation.