How to Use disillusion in a Sentence

disillusion

1 of 2 noun
  • There is no better tonic, no faster cure for disillusion.
    — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 26 Dec. 2025
  • Britain is caught in a dangerous cycle of disillusion and anger.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • Over the years, disillusion set in, and the dream collapsed in the 1990s.
    — Tony Perrottet, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2020
  • 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 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
  • The result is a moving group portrait of disillusion and resilience.
    — Monitor Reviewers, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Reasons for disillusion include the slow pace of reconstruction and the lack of jobs.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • The lyrics explored longing and disillusion, marking a thematic change for the band.
    — Sophie Williams, Billboard, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But her songs are full of dark stories of convoluted love, nihilistic disillusion and pain.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The amount of hyperbole and disillusion about the metaverse is astounding.
    — Nina Xiang, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • These contests will take place amid popular disillusion with politicians, caused partly by corruption.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2017
  • Registers of loss and disillusion are blended, from the individual to the national and back again.
    — Dustin Illingworth, latimes.com, 31 May 2018
  • His style was better suited to conveying disillusion than commitment.
    — Elaine Blair, The New York Review of Books, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Knowledge, in this play, is an ever-churning system of unveiling and subsequent disillusion.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2022
  • Euphoria has faded, and disappointment and disillusion have moved in.
    — Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Laconic disillusion was a hallmark of the era, but Dubus’s stories tend to be crowded and argumentative.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2018
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 13 June 2023
  • Anxiety regarding climate change further causes feelings of disillusion with work for a generation already struggling to pay the bills.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The inability to restrain or redirect this disillusion proved fatal for the Soviet Union.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Common explanations for an exit from the public eye include retirement, health issues, family obligations, and disillusion with the nature of fame.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 30 May 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Darkness at Noon, published in 1940, is the lasting monument to his disillusion with Communism.
    — Douglas Murray, National Review, 30 Oct. 2017

disillusion

2 of 2 verb
  • Working at that store for six months was enough to disillusion me about retail work.
  • The goal is to disillusion us about ourselves, and to build kinship.
    — Gaiutra Bahadur, The New Republic, 25 Nov. 2020
  • Even the left has grown disillusioned with such gestures’ meaning.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
  • 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 home crowd, grumpy and disillusioned a few weeks earlier, are now cheering the team off the pitch.
    — Daniel Taylor, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • We might be disillusioned with voting.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Kanye West didn’t sound this disillusioned with rap stardom until at least his fifth album.
    — Al Shipley, SPIN, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Who doesn’t feel on top of the world at 25, and tired and at least a touch disillusioned 30 years later?
    — Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
  • But if the affair was all in her imagination, why should distance disillusion her?
    — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • Fans disillusioned with the club’s shocking decline over the past three years have called for the board to be sacked, but at present there is hardly a board to sack.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Many members, disillusioned over the downsizing, left to join other clubs.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 5 Dec. 2025
  • Spears herself has stated that she is disillusioned with the music industry and does not plan on recording again.
    — Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Roberts said the whole series of events encouraged but also slightly disillusioned him.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
  • But Adams was disillusioned by Roosevelt and the New Deal.
    — John Blake, CNN Money, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Though some are disillusioned with the United States, others forge ahead with their visits.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 26 May 2026
  • Nielsen, the biologist, said this spring that she was disillusioned with Murkowski.
    — Susan Dominus, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And as with Vietnam and Iraq, the results were costly and disillusioning.
    — Andrew J. Bacevich, Harper's magazine, 2 Mar. 2020
  • They are fed up with the occupation and disillusioned with their leaders in Ramallah.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The Penan have been forced into settlements, Manser is dead, Palmieri disillusioned.
    — National Geographic, 10 Mar. 2018
  • After that show, he got disillusioned with the music industry and retrained as an animator.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Life in the modern world had gotten disillusioning enough that the idea of actually living in history might be a temptation for him.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 July 2023
  • 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

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