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How to use discouraging in a sentence

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Banks are getting choosy over deposits, discouraging big deposits, particularly from corporates.
My dear hearers, this very straitness of the path, this narrowness of the path, doth have in it something discouraging.
And it was discouraging to him to think of having to appease four sharpened appetites with a crust of bread.
Perhaps this is an approach to discouraging driving while drunk and thirsty.
There is nothing more discouraging to a society than playing to empty seats.
Bob Clarke gave me the nickname and instead of discouraging it, I went along with it.
Finishing fifth out of six in that initial foray was discouraging, but didn't deter her.
Despite the discouraging outlook, many black-owned businesses are proving that offshoring does not spell the end of contracting as we know it.
The sun had gone for the time being but the memory of it stayed with me, sweet and languid, discouraging activity of any kind.
Despite the discouraging situation, he was fuelled with material for his stand-up comedy routine.
Won't halving the government's legal enforcement budget eviscerate valuable regulations by discouraging necessary prosecutions?
Telling people to boost a goal they might not even have reached yet could also be discouraging, he adds.
The available figures on the knowledge of some health professionals are discouraging.
A high would reflect a method of user removal that would be effective in scaring or otherwise discouraging new users from joining the network.
Preventing or discouraging bad behavior is also more effective than punishing the child.
The Licensing Act 2003 is designed to tackle binge drinking and anti-social behaviour by discouraging happy hours.
However, it is designed to promote best practice, in terms of discouraging the use of, or minimising the harm caused by, marijuana.
Many policies aimed at helping the poor can have the side effect of discouraging the poor from escaping poverty on their own.
On one hand, it can gum the market up, keeping it flat and discouraging people from trading completely.
Besides discouraging plant growth, the opaque toldo absorbs sunlight, becoming a huge radiant heater.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Promptly on the next day, February 29th, Molinos replied to this discouraging epistle.
Not even Bradley's unresponsiveness seemed to have a decided discouraging effect.
Also a woman backed her donkey cart into us at Annecy and put another dent in our mudguard, which was somehow discouraging.
Burnside's repulse at Fredericksburg was followed by a discouraging retreat.
But the most discouraging of all was the telling of the cost of carfare to the Adirondacks.
Their advance was impeded by the sudd, and, after writing discouraging reports, their attempt was abandoned.
The rejection of the sapwood by so many users is the most discouraging feature.
And yet, when we wrote to our friends who were watching, their answer was most discouraging.
It was rather discouraging, wearisome work, and Billy's heart began to misgive him as one after another refused his request.
She learned more of Mrs. Grubb with every interview, and she knew that her enthusiasms were as discouraging as her apathies.
Sir John's reply was non-committal, but not wholly discouraging.
Leaving the others to console Beth, she departed to the kitchen, which was in a most discouraging state of confusion.
Duncan, who had already swung eagerly forward, drew instantly back on hearing these discouraging words.
He would listen to the most pathetic appeals with the most discouraging politeness and equanimity.
He looked upon her frozen attitude, so discouraging for a lover to behold, and recoiled from the thoughts which it suggested.
Then the tone of banter, of irony, almost of persiflage, is discouraging.
Crupp's opinion and everybody else's, and rather favouring than discouraging the idea, Mrs.
The mysterious warnings and intimations of Cassy, so far from discouraging his soul, in the end had roused it as with a heavenly call.
It is so discouraging not to have any advice and companionship about my work.
Low-lying alligator, evading the eyesight and discouraging hope!
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