Maana ya kamusi ya neno "crestfallen" ni kujisikia aibu au kukatishwa tamaa au kuvunjika moyo kwa sababu ya kushindwa au kukatishwa tamaa.
1. Poor Passepartout, quite crestfallen, followed his master without a word.
2. Fogg, offering his arm to Aouda, then departed, followed by the crestfallen Passepartout.
3. To conclude, the old men went off, one crestfallen, and the other in high contentment, all who were present were astonished, and he who was recording the words, deeds, and movements of Sancho could not make up his mind whether he was to look upon him and set him down as a fool or as a man of sense.
4. It was the very witching time of night that Ichabod, heavy-hearted and crestfallen, pursued his travels homewards, along the sides of the lofty hills which rise above Tarry Town, and which he had traversed so cheerily in the afternoon.
5. Then he saw Bill, standing amid the dogs, half triumphant, half crestfallen, in one hand a stout club, in the other the tail and part of the body of a sun-cured salmon.
6. As no one spoke, he raised his head a fraction and was about to conclude the meeting when, crestfallen, someone spoke.