Mrs. Wyndwood wondered dolefully again what she would do when Olive was married.
A strayed sparrow hopped dolefully amid the grains of snuff on the floating platform in futile quest of seeds.
As the door shut upon him, Robert dropped back into his chair, and sat on, his face in his hands, staringdolefully at the fire.
All this time the uncle was dolefully blowing his clarionet in the corner, sometimes taking it an inch or so from his mouth for a moment while he stopped to gaze at them, with a vague impression that somebody had said something.
Young John dolefully protested that he would try to bear it in mind, and would be heartily glad to do anything she wished.
The Half-breeds put the wounded on the beasts of burden and dolefully returned to their camp.
Like a thin thread of water gleams the rails of the Pacific Railroad, twenty thousand miles of metal over which the dolefully hooting steam engine capers to connect the Iron and Coal States with those of Gold and Corn.
In the distance he saw the "Drag" moving lazily along after the dust-cloud, with barefooted niggers driving the laggard cattle and singing dolefully as they walked.
We'll find no treasure, nary a penny of it," dolefully observed Joe Hawkridge who had actually begun to shiver.
Dolefully he exclaimed: "To live in tame and stupid England, locked up in a school?
Nobody asked you to Come, any way;" and Ben gazed dolefully round him, wishing he could see a familiar face or find a wiser head than his own to help him out of the scrape he was in.
True as I live and breathe," echoed Sam, dolefully relinquishing his favorite pastime of pulling Betty's braids and asking if she was at home.
They are apt to be rendered uncomfortable by comets and eclipses, and if a dog howls dolefully at night it is looked upon as a sure sign of death in the place.
Dolefully sounds the All Souls' bell from the tower of the convent church.
His friends pitied him, talked dolefully to him, promised to look after him in the days of incapacity.
No one else thought that anything could be done for him but to speak dolefully and to assure him that he was fortunate in having parents and brothers who would look out for him.
The natural world is too limited even for Carlyle's shoe-black; nor is it surprising that Byron should find it a waste, and dolefully proclaim his disappointment to much-admiring mankind.
I do not know; but something we are not expecting, you may be sure," he dolefully answered.
Don't let's talk about it," Tommy replied, as dolefully as the loud tone would permit.
When donning his uniform of a National Guardsman on the preceding evening, he had forgotten, dolefully absorbed as he was, to take his pocket-book.
Then a coyote howleddolefully in a distant bluff, and the girl shivered as she shrank down further amidst the furs.
It was so dolefully disheartening, so endlessly irritating--it dragged on so much longer than we had foreseen.
It was a beautiful house just out of Stamford on the Sound--rather dolefully empty now that the children had gone.
Whenever I have been less than frank, I have always found it dolefully unsatisfactory.
Helen is over at the Canteen, Nora is hard at work for once in her life, and I seem most dolefully alone.
Macey sighed, and gazed dolefully at the bank, as if he wished that he were ashore.
Come round this side," said Vane, and Macey came dolefully round with the work on mathematics, over which he had been poring.
He is of the old, old China, and wags his head most dolefully over the troubles of his country, and says a republic never will succeed.
Canst thou hear her, and see her shake her head dolefully over the dismal fact that thou hast left the narrow way of Confucius and the classics?
While a ballad-singer dolefully drawls out The Ladie's Fall, an infant in her arms joins its treble pipe in chorus with the screaming parrot, which is on a lamp-iron over her head.
The officers instinctively group themselves together, and the handcuffs fall from the leader's grasp, clanking dolefullyas they strike the bare floor.
Rather a stately house of its kind, but dolefully in want of painting, and with dirty windows.
After this escape, I was content to take a foggy view of the Inn through the window's encrusting dirt, and to stand dolefully looking out, saying to myself that London was decidedly overrated.
But he well knew that no excuse would be available, and dolefully looked down into the valley, as if he expected help to come from thence.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dolefully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
