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Example sentences for "saddening"

Lexicographically close words:
sad; sadd; sadde; sadden; saddened; saddens; sadder; saddest; saddle; saddlebag
  1. But the second conviction as to difference is a sombre and saddening one.

  2. Hence also springs Plato’s saddening aloofness from and contempt for all trades and handicrafts, for all the homely tastes, joys, and sorrows at all peculiar to the toiling majority.

  3. The time of trustful questioning, but still of questioning, first others, then oneself, has come.

  4. The sight of an old nest over which two or three winters have passed is a rather saddening one.

  5. So dies a human habitation left to natural decay, all that was seen above the surface of the soil sinking gradually below it, Till naught remains the saddening tale to tell Save home's last wrecks, the cellar and the well.

  6. And so, many youthful poets have written as if their hearts were old before their time; their pensive morning twilight has been as cool and saddening as that of evening in more common lives.

  7. But if I am here when the leaves are all fallen, the programme of my life will have changed, and this story of the dead past will be illuminated by the light of a living present which will irradiate all its saddening features.

  8. The disadvantages of this process are the same as those attached to the dyeing and saddening in one bath.

  9. Blacks may be obtained from logwood by several methods, either by previous mordanting of the wool or by the stuffing and saddening methods, or by the one-bath process.

  10. The goods are first treated in a bath of the dye-wood for a short time, then rinsed, and the colour is developed by padding into a saddening bath of the mordant.

  11. The principle of dyeing by stuffing and saddening may be carried (p.

  12. I would I could deceive," said the lieutenant sadly, "and proclaim consoling news instead of saddening your Majesty.

  13. Lady Polignac's disheartenment had no effect beyond saddening her royal mistress.

  14. A thousand times she tried to analyse and extirpate the saddening impression that weighed upon her heart.

  15. But the youthful heart must ever remain a stranger to this saddening truth.

  16. We shall have a letter," mother said, her eyes saddening every afternoon.

  17. Like sunlight when the tempests lower, Prayer to the soul is nigh; Though dark may be our lot, Our eyes be dim with care, These saddening thoughts shall trouble not This holy hour of prayer.

  18. In this divine abode Change leaves no saddening trace; Come, trusting spirit, to thy God, Thy holy resting-place!

  19. Now, if the book was merely an excursion in attitude, a considered work of art without any very profound relation to the truth of its personal psychology, then I think the book would be a less saddening thing than it undoubtedly is.

  20. I will permit myself one quotation before I conclude, which is surely saddening in its significance in the view of after events.

  21. Of all the offspring of the forest, the Fir bears, perhaps, the most saddening and desolate aspect.

  22. A heavy, chill, and comfortless mist sat saddening over the earth.

  23. It is not easy to be bad-tempered over this saddening business; one has to be pitiful.

  24. It is saddening to notice the levity with which the most awful of topics is treated, and especially is it sad to see how completely the women and children are thrust out of mind by belligerent persons.

  25. Nevertheless, modest and self-restrained as he was, there was evidently some reproving or saddening influence in his presence which affected the spirits of every one near him, and darkened the eve of the wedding to bride and bridegroom alike.

  26. It is usually applied as a saddening agent, that is, the wool is dyed first, and the mordant applied afterwards to fix the colour.

  27. For many years doubt's saddening shade On our hearts its pall has laid: But a gleam comes from the bright forever, And gloom and fear shall haunt us never.

  28. Centuries ago, that day, A saddening act was done, That rocked the earth in horror And dimmed the radiant sun.

  29. He fell, and falling nations mourned around; But now not one of saddening thousands weeps, Nor warlike worshipper his vigil keeps Where demi-gods appeared, as records tell.

  30. I joy no child he was of thine: Thy freeborn men revere what once was free, Nor tear the Sculpture from its saddening shrine, Nor bear the spoil away athwart the weeping Brine.

  31. Pitiful as these are, sights and sounds infinitely more saddening await us beyond the gate that shuts this world of woe off from one whence the light of hope and reason have gone out together.

  32. Sometimes--it can hardly be said in extenuation--the heel that crunches is applied in saddening ignorance.

  33. An air of gloom hung over this once cheerful spot: its very beauty contributing to this saddening effect.

  34. Now, therefore, the figure of Nicholas sitting out on the bank in a vibrating mist of rain, with his feet in a puddle, and his hair flickering in damp strands about his thin face, became for Dan an ominous and saddening spectacle.

  35. It is profoundly saddening to think that such abominations are committed; it is still more saddening to think that they are performed as a part of divine worship.

  36. Yes--if one has the strength to turn one's eyes aside from the dreams; but saddening otherwise.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "saddening" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affecting; bitter; bleak; cheerless; deplorable; depressing; dismal; dismaying; distressing; dolorous; dreary; grievous; joyless; lamentable; melancholic; melancholy; mournful; moving; painful; pathetic; piteous; plaintive; poignant; regrettable; rueful; sad; sharp; sore; sorrowful; touching; triste; uncomfortable; woebegone; woeful; wretched