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Example sentences for "sorrowed"

Lexicographically close words:
sorrie; sorrier; sorriest; sorrow; sorrowe; sorrowes; sorrowful; sorrowfull; sorrowfully; sorrowing
  1. As Bud passed through the gates, she no longer wondered that the exiled Fairies wept and sorrowed for the lovely home they had lost.

  2. Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

  3. She would have sorrowed more for Esther had there not been Robin; and perchance even more for Robin had Mrs Rose's anguish and Thekla's weighed less upon her.

  4. She asked no questions about father or brother; she sorrowed not for the mother lately dead and buried.

  5. One soft eye, one kindred heart discovered his silent sorrow; she, too, sorrowed as those without hope; she had not even the courage to offer consolation.

  6. This became known to Enid, and she sorrowed much on account of it.

  7. King Marke sorrowed greatly, because he began to fear that his nephew would die, so he sent for all the skilled leeches and surgeons he could hear of; but none of them could do anything.

  8. For the most part she sorrowed in silence.

  9. She also sorrowed greatly over it, because, although the king said nothing to her about this trouble, yet she could see that it vexed him that they had no heir to the kingdom; and she wished every day that she might have one.

  10. After the king had set out on his journey, the queen went about in her loneliness, and sorrowed and vexed herself more than ever.

  11. Most of all, I sorrowed for him as we waited for her on the terrace of the Bertolini, that perch on the cliff so high that even the noises of the town are dulled and mingle with the sound of the thick surf far below.

  12. I--for whom her great heart had sorrowed as for the thin, beaten cab-horses of Paris!

  13. Other things of this life are the less to be sorrowed for, the more they are sorrowed for; and the more to be sorrowed for, the less men sorrow for them.

  14. And when they lost one another, as if very compassionate, I sorrowed with them, yet had my delight in both.

  15. Thou knowest how I have sorrowed for the boy, but next to his loss I could mourn over thee--aye, more bitterly than over any other of the fallen!

  16. Thou hast felt the want of thy daily assistant, fisherman, and thou hast sorrowed for thy child; for thee it is easy to enter into another's griefs; but the Senators know nothing of suffering.

  17. What consolation that a million such telegrams had been read and sorrowed over these last two years!

  18. His wife sorrowed over this new passion; her health, already much enfeebled, soon broke down.

  19. Finally, Raven's mother died, and he sorrowed greatly, for she saw not the Great Light that he had established to overcome the darkness of Death.

  20. The apostle rejoiced, not that the Corinthians sorrowed, but that they sorrowed unto repentance.

  21. Akiko died of consumption, only a little before the day appointed for the wedding; and her promised husband sorrowed greatly.

  22. Exceedingly the old man sorrowed for his tree.

  23. It had fallen dark some time, and she had wept and sorrowed herself into a half-dozing state, when a few words spoken near aroused her.

  24. And when the sobs were hushed, she still sat shedding quiet tears, sorrowed and disturbed by her grandfather's manner.

  25. And, since I have found that it has not been so, I have sorrowed for you also.

  26. Mabel, I sorrowed for myself greatly when that word was spoken, partly because I thought that your love could so easily be taken from me.

  27. The committee sorrowed deeply, but could me the permission not grant on account of a law which from the Concordia demands she shall the German language protect.

  28. The King sorrowed for her day and night, and proclaimed that whoever brought her back should marry her.

  29. Then, thinking that his son was lost to him for ever, he went home and sorrowed for him.

  30. You must not think I have ever regretted my choice, though every day of my life I have sorrowed at your decision not to see me so long as I stayed by my husband.

  31. XXXIV "He who had marked her sorrow and lament, That day, himself had sorrowed with the fair.

  32. And she sorrowed exceedingly for his sake.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorrowed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anguished; careworn; doleful; dolorous; grieved; grievous; lamentable; lugubrious; mournful; plaintive; plangent; rueful; sorrowful; tearful; woeful