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Example sentences for "sorrowfully"

Lexicographically close words:
sorrowe; sorrowed; sorrowes; sorrowful; sorrowfull; sorrowing; sorrows; sorry; sors; sort
  1. The name of my ship was demanded, and with fear and trembling in my heart I turned and walked sorrowfully away.

  2. His admirers, too jealous for the poetic dignity of their hero, have turned away sorrowfully from this memorial heap of odd-shaped missiles, hurled from his dire left hand for the confusion of his enemies.

  3. The Seventy looked from one to another and shook their heads, sorrowfully indeed, but with knitted brows and grave stern faces that denoted no intention to spare.

  4. Esca, careless and almost unaware of the conflict raging around, bent sorrowfully over his old friend, and devoted all his faculties to the task of aiding Mariamne in her efforts to alleviate his sufferings.

  5. So papa said," replied Ethel, as she looked sorrowfully down.

  6. May very sad--his affections had tendrils for anything that he had known from boyhood; and though he had often spoken strong words of the vicar, he now sat sorrowfully moralising and making excuses.

  7. At last, understanding them, she dropped her eyes sorrowfully downward again.

  8. So she forgot her own people, and followed the old man and his bride sorrowfully home to his house.

  9. Then the Fifes sorrowfully marched away, leaving their beloved captain behind them.

  10. We have still to deplore that the Letters of Lamb are even at this later day either withheld or sorrowfully mutilated; e.

  11. In 1869 he was attacked by black cancer, and at length I was sorrowfully obliged to put an end to his existence, to save him from a cruel, lingering death.

  12. Marie looked sorrowfully at his quivering frame, and sighed heavily.

  13. Ludwig's heart ached with pity for the little maid when he saw how sorrowfully she gazed from her window on the glittering lake.

  14. Yes--yes," sorrowfully murmured the old gentleman.

  15. Then sorrowfully he pushed the boat out into the ocean, and the ebbing tide bore it away, while Horn and his companions set their faces resolutely towards the town they could see in the distance.

  16. He sat sorrowfully in his place waiting for the certain death that must come, and regretting his rashness, but with no thought of breaking his word.

  17. Then, as he stood over him, he 20 meditated sorrowfully on his master's future fortunes, while he himself refrained from interfering with God's purposes.

  18. England awoke sorrowfully to the fact that hostilities were not to be put off, and, calmly making the best of a bad matter, set to work to prepare for the struggle.

  19. Jack laid him gently on the grass, and, rising sorrowfully to his feet, looked for the last time upon this stalwart young Highlander.

  20. The two boys sat down, and looked sorrowfully over the distant waters.

  21. They ate their supper in silence, and Mary and Frank went sorrowfully to bed.

  22. Their next try was at Oldham, but matters grew worse instead of better, and on Saturday night five-and-twenty shillings was sorrowfully portioned out in equal shares.

  23. Kate awoke from her reverie with a start, and answered sorrowfully that she did not know, that she was afraid Dick would never forgive her again.

  24. Father John walked sorrowfully back to his cottage, thinking Miss Feemy Macdermot the most stiff-necked young lady it had ever been his hard lot to meet.

  25. Captain Carey and Johanna, neither of whom had tasted the sweets and bitters of marriage, looked sorrowfully at me and shook their heads.

  26. My mother could not promise to come back to me, and her dying vision looked sorrowfully into the future for me.

  27. I had almost resolved to do so when I came hither; then I forswore the intention: now again I sometimes sorrowfully return to the idea.

  28. Sorrowfully did he go about and wearily; and he became like unto those of whom the soothsayer had spoken.

  29. His broad breast heaved a deep sigh, his eyes looked sorrowfully at Margaret's joyless face--to him a closed paradise.

  30. The guests sorrowfully followed the body of their best friend to Csakatorny.

  31. It was because, when the first of these alternatives had to be sorrowfully abandoned, the second was offered in the Government of Ireland Act of 1920 that Ulster did not actively oppose the passing of that statute.

  32. Every man must find his own answer, or must acknowledge sorrowfully that he can find none.

  33. Love, who had been looking on sorrowfully from a lofty perch on a bookshelf, vanished with a sigh of despair.

  34. If I could conceive of young men having patience to read it and to value it, I should sorrowfully renounce all hope for their future.

  35. All this time Hetty had remained seated in the head of the scow, looking sorrowfully into the water which held the body of her mother, as well as that of the man whom she had been taught to consider her father.

  36. Hurry is sinful and thoughtless about his words, Judith," Hetty meekly and sorrowfully answered.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorrowfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.