She would, instead, walk away from him with her head high - and his unsavoury hopes for the future dashed to the ground.

I saw it happen many a time, for an actor or actress to have his hopes dashed.

Even now, with any hope of release dashed, Pope continued to squirm.

Most men, however, left poorer than they had started off, with their hopes dashed.

"It seems that our hopes keep getting raised and then dashed."

Expecting immediate acceptance in America, he quickly found his hopes dashed.

With one sentence, the door is slammed shut, any hope of an interview dashed.

Earlier this week around half a million pensioners saw their hopes dashed.

We have seemed very close to agreement before, only to have everyone's hopes dashed at the last minute.

I didn't want to think he was right, just because that would have made getting my hopes dashed all the crueler.