Tristes voluptatum exitus, et quisquis voluptatum suarum reminisci volet, intelliget, as bitter as gall and wormwood is their last; grief of mind, madness itself.
He is careful to state in his preface that he is relating "des histoires autant veritables que tristes et funestes.
A beautiful example of this is that poem entitled "Promenade Sentimentale," which is one of the Paysages Tristes in the "Poèmes Saturniens.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tristes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.