In a sentence
Six example sentences with depress, each labelled with its topic.
Missing three weeks with a sprained ankle depressed him more than the injury itself, and he skipped the gym entirely.
Fitness
Losing the same boss fight eleven nights running depressed the whole squad, and two members stopped logging in.
Gaming
The narrator admits that gray November afternoons depress her, though a single hour of sun restores her mood completely.
Literature
An eleven-game losing streak can depress even a veteran locker room, and by February nobody was joking at practice.
Basketball
The bleak ending depressed the test audience so badly that the studio shot a hopeful final scene in one afternoon.
Movies
One study suggested that an hour of scrolling through strangers' vacation photos can depress a viewer's mood for the rest of the evening.
Psychology
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Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
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