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Example sentences for "sorrowful"

Lexicographically close words:
sorriest; sorrow; sorrowe; sorrowed; sorrowes; sorrowfull; sorrowfully; sorrowing; sorrows; sorry
  1. And after that many a sorrowful feeling was wrought into trammels and pothooks.

  2. Soft and sweet blew the west wind again; that spoke not of the bygone day, with its burden and heat; but of rest, and repose, and the change that cometh even to sorrowful things.

  3. The fresher evening air breathed through the pine and cedar branches, hardly stirred their stiff leaves, but brought from them tokens of rare sweetness; brought them to Elizabeth's sorrowful face, and passed on.

  4. Neither did Winthrop come to the sorrowful gathering which the remnant of the family made round the supper-table.

  5. But it had been for them; and with this added thought of sorrowful care, he reached Mannahatta with his little sister.

  6. The crisis of his fate in a few sorrowful words had come before him.

  7. Accordingly he went his way among the people, and if he had any sorrowful reason for being glad of what rendered it his duty to pick up all the information he could, this did not make him less energetic in fighting the farmers.

  8. In another corner Everard talked in low tones with the two physicians who were to remain that night, Mr. Cameron taking cognizance, in the midst of his own sorrowful thoughts, of every word.

  9. Very well," said Lyle, with a sorrowful submission, "but I know what I can do.

  10. I am not in a mood to relish such foolery now, so send her about her business,” answered the lady, in a tone more sorrowful than angry.

  11. When at length it was made known to him that the separation was inevitable, and the season of it arrived, he received the astounding intelligence like a severe blow of fortune, that struck him at once both sorrowful and meditative.

  12. He filled the chest with them to the very brim, locked it, and, mounting his horse, left the palace as sorrowful as he had been glad when he first beheld it.

  13. They soon reached the land which Sigurd was to rule over, and found all the people sorrowful for the old king's death, but they became glad when they got Sigurd back to the court, and made him king over them.

  14. She would have melted a rock, so beautiful and sorrowful was she; but Blue Beard had a heart harder than any rock!

  15. So they took a sorrowful leave of each other: the princess put the piece of cloth in her bosom, mounted her horse, and then went away to her bridegroom.

  16. Manabozho renewed his cries and managed to throw out for a third or fourth time, his sorrowful lament that he was a poor unfortunate who had no parents or relatives.

  17. The literal-minded, sorrowful old woman has no thought of inspiring such devotion.

  18. There’s a tale about it,— It has been lying there these many years,— Some wild old sorrowful tale.

  19. There’s a tale about it— It has been lying there these many years— Some wild old sorrowful tale.

  20. I had thought her beautiful before, but in this time of sorrowful emergency there was a mysterious expression on her face that gave her an added charm.

  21. Not only Janet Pembroke's beauty and the pathetic appeal of her sorrowful face attracted me, but I was fascinated by the mystery of the girl.

  22. We were free, we were again united, but what a sorrowful reunion!

  23. She had even forced herself to gaze, without the quiver of an eyelash, at the sorrowful and horrible spectacle outside of the "Hole.

  24. At the Reichstag of the year 1289, whose memory is shadowed by many a sorrowful incident, most of the persons mentioned in our story met once more.

  25. It was a sorrowful farewell on account of her children, but the barber thinks we may perhaps save her yet.

  26. He was holding Els by the hand, and it was evident that some sorrowful thought occupied the minds of both.

  27. The vesper bells had already died away, yet Heinz was still listening eagerly to the aged Minorite, who was now relating the story of St. Francis, his breach with everything that he loved, and the sorrowful commencement of his life.

  28. Els doubtless noticed it, but with no bitter or sorrowful thoughts.

  29. Rosalinde Eysvogel, repeated in a tone of sorrowful lamentation, "Yes, the wheel and the gallows.

  30. This afforded Heinz some consolation, but enough remained to keep his grief alive, and his voice sounded very sorrowful as he added: "That lessens the bitterness of the cup.

  31. His wayward history, in breaking away from the wholesome restraints and watchcare of home, may be found written, perhaps, in many sorrowful hearts which he has left behind.

  32. As this feeling grew, Alma's heart became exceedingly sorrowful and he mourned the depravity of his people.

  33. With a sorrowful heart he wended his way homeward; but before he reached there, the voice of the Lord came to him with many words of comfort and commendation.

  34. Jared became very sorrowful at his defeat, as he had set his heart upon being king.

  35. Phaedra perhaps bore it best of all, with a strange hopeless fortitude that reminded one of Governor's stolidity, only saying that though life was sorrowful even at its happiest, it was, thank Heaven!

  36. Speak," said Eleanora, moved by the sorrowful earnestness of his manner.

  37. Here saith the tale that much sorrowful was the fair lady and heavy of heart, when she called to mind how she had cast her lord out of his house.

  38. Messire Thibault saw it well, and much sorrowful he was, but nought might he do against it; nor none ill will had he against the Lady for that which had befallen her; for he wotted well that it had been perforce and against the will of her.

  39. It might be a claw, for the flesh there is upon it,' was the Spirit's sorrowful reply.

  40. Confused and in despair, he exclaimed in a sorrowful tone, "All is lost!

  41. Salviti came with a sorrowful visage and announced this fresh misfortune; our vessel tacked about, and we reached our station of exile.

  42. Then I sat down to put on my stockings and shoes, with the tears running down my eyes, and many sorrowful thoughts in my heart.

  43. And I was not a little glad to hear this; being by it raised in my hopes that in God's due time there would be an end of this sorrowful hour.

  44. In the seemingly fathomless eyes there shone a look of sorrowful reproach, and a sort of sad sternness pervaded the whole face.

  45. Georgia threw back her heavy vail, and the old gentleman gave a start of surprise at sight of the white, cold, beautiful face, and dark, sorrowful eyes.

  46. Nearly half a year had now elapsed since that sorrowful night when she had fled from home--six of the darkest months in all Georgia's life.

  47. Such an hour was this to Christie, for, as she stood there, that sorrowful bewilderment which we call despair came over her, and ruled her with a power she could not resist.

  48. But it was Christie whom she addressed, Christie whose pardon she implored, Christie's sorrowful reproach that she most keenly felt.

  49. But gradually she underwent the sorrowful change which comes to strong natures when they wrong themselves through ignorance or wilfulness.

  50. Well, on the coach we went to Perth, and passed through Kinross, and saw Loch Leven, and the island where Queen Mary passed those sorrowful months, before her romantic escape under care of the Douglas.

  51. Its eye was dull, and its plumage soiled and shabby, yet, in its form and attitude, all the king was visible, though sorrowful and dethroned.

  52. But from all these sorrowful tokens I by no means inferred the falsehood of the information, that here was to be found a circle rich in intellect and in aspiration.

  53. It was indeed a sorrowful sight to see how nations bled, and how freedom withered in the iron grasp of despotisms, leagued for universal oppression of humanity.

  54. It is sorrowful to see that not even such a cause as that which I plead, can escape from being dragged down insultingly into the mud.

  55. It was a sorrowful sight to see that there was no power on earth ready to maintain those eternal laws, without which there is no security for any nation on earth.

  56. That would be a sorrowful sight, fraught with the grief of centuries for all humanity!

  57. We have seen many a sorrowful day in our past, We have been by our geographical position, destined as the breakwater against every great misfortune, which in former centuries rushed over Europe from the East.

  58. It was a sorrowful sight to see all nations isolating themselves in defence, while despots leagued in offence.

  59. England only remains; but even England casts a sorrowful glance over the waves.

  60. It is sorrowful enough that the people have often to pay for what the government sinned.

  61. Kossuth, in response, opened by lamenting that the perpetual claims upon his time, and the pressure of sorrowful feelings on his heart, made it impossible for him to study how to address them suitably.

  62. It is sorrowful indeed, but it is natural.

  63. But that among freemen and professed republicans even the honour of an unfortunate nation, in its most mournful suffering, should not be sacred,--that is indeed a sorrowful page in human history.


  64. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorrowful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    affecting; afflicted; anguished; bitter; bleak; careworn; cheerless; complaining; dark; dejected; deplorable; depressing; desolate; despondent; disconsolate; dismal; dismaying; distressing; doleful; dolorous; dreary; forlorn; fretful; funereal; gloomy; grieved; grievous; guilty; heartbroken; heavy; hopeless; howling; hurt; joyless; lamentable; lugubrious; melancholy; miserable; mournful; mouth; moving; painful; pathetic; peevish; penitent; petulant; piteous; plaintive; plangent; poignant; puling; querulous; regretful; regrettable; remorseful; rueful; ruthful; sad; sharp; sore; sorrowful; sorry; tearful; touching; uncomfortable; unhappy; whimpering; whining; woebegone; woeful; wretched