How to Use "despond" with Example Sentences

1. He saved her from the slough of despond .
2. And I also hate the person who made me despond .
3. Give you hope and give you despond !
4. For years , the u. s.manufacturing sector seems to have been sliding into the slough of despond .
5. But even by their usual gloomy standards , britons seem to have got themselves into a slough of despond of late .