Contoh Kalimat Menggunakan Kata "Despite"

Berikut adalah kumpulan contoh kalimat dalam bahasa Inggris yang menggunakan atau mengandung kata "Despite":

• Despite promising market opportunity, the board of directors naysaid that the program would run.
• He managed to pull off the concert last night despite the rain.
• The largest internal organ is the small intestine. Despite being called the smaller of the two intestines, your small intestine is actually four times as long as the average adult is tall. If it weren't looped back and forth upon itself it wouldn't fit inside the abdominal cavity.
• The atoms that make up your body are mostly empty space, despite there being so many of them, without that space you would compress into a tiny volume.
• The human brain uses 20% of the entire body's oxygen and calorie intake, despite only accounting for about 2% of an adult's body mass.
• In 2002, Brazilian mechanic Alfredo Moser invented a new type of lamp that uses absolutely no electric whatsoever! The Moser-lamp is created using a plastic bottle filled with water and the smallest bit of bleach (to stop the bottle turning green with algae), and works through the refraction of natural light – kicking out roughly 40 – 60 watts per lamp! They are becoming popular in many countries where electricity is an expensive commodity, and have been fitted in over 140,000 homes in the Philippines. Despite the success of his invention, Alfredo Moser has not become rich from it, but has instead a great sense of pride at his altruism.
• Despite being over 27 times smaller, Norways total coastline is longer than the USAs.
• THE MOST UNUSUAL CANNONBALL: On two occasions, Miss 'Rita Thunderbird' remained inside the cannon despite a lot of gunpowder encouragement to do otherwise. She performed in a gold lamé bikini and on one of the two occasions (1977) Miss Thunderbird remained lodged in the cannon, while her bra was shot across the Thames River.
• Despite the white, fluffy appearance of Polar Bears fur (which is transparent), it actually has black skin.
• Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.
• Despite being long extinct, dinosaurs are frequently featured in the media. One of the more memorable examples of this is Michael Crichton's 1990 book Jurassic Park. Adapted to movie in 1993, the story features cloned dinosaurs brought to life with the help of DNA found in mosquitoes trapped in amber.
• On one of the islands off the West-Coast of Australia lies Lake Hillier. A bright, bubble-gum pink lake! Despite not being the only colored lake in the world, it is unique because it is the only colored lake where scientists have not yet determined what causes it to be such a bright pink.
• Despite the facts I present, he kept trying to gainsay my statement.
• The manager haven’t forsaken the employees, despite their frequent lateness.