Synonyms

1. alarm
2. consternation

Sentence Examples

1. I sighed, shook my head in dismay and, camera over the shoulder, picked one and started climbing.
2. Too helpless to change the fates, too stunned to cry or weep, they only looked on in silence and dismay.
3. The main fury of the blast had already blown over, and we apprehended little danger from the violence of the wind but we looked forward to its total cessation with dismay well believing, that, in our shattered condition, we should inevitably perish in the tremendous swell which would ensue.
4. Thou dost mark well, faithful and trusty squire, the gloom of this night, its strange silence, the dull confused murmur of those trees, the awful sound of that water in quest of which we came, that seems as though it were precipitating and dashing itself down from the lofty mountains of the Moon, and that incessant hammering that wounds and pains our ears which things all together and each of itself are enough to instil fear, dread, and dismay into the breast of Mars himself, much more into one not used to hazards and adventures of the kind.
5. Arthur shook his head in dismay at the sight of homeless people dumpster-diving for food, at the run-down, graffiti-covered, dilapidated homes and apartment complexes, at the prison-like housing projects.
6. Both its swords crashed into him simultaneously, and it was all I could do to keep from shouting in dismay.
7. Tarkyn wondered, with a frisson of dismay, where the woodfolk had procured it.
8. But this feeling did not fail to die rapidly away, and thereunto succeeded horror, and dismay, and a chilling sense of utter helplessness and ruin.
9. It was the shiny gold camisole underneath that made the whole ensemble pop to my dismay.
10. He shook his head in dismay, realizing anew the enormity of the task before him.