mournful

IPA: mˈɔrnfʌɫ

Examples of "mournful" in Sentences

Profoundly discouraged, we ride on after this in mournful silence.
This is a poem describing in mournful fashion the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians.
She sat up, without attempting to read, write, or employ herself, patrolling her chamber in mournful rumination.
They describe in mournful tones the image of the lonely CEO sitting in his office late at night filling out government forms.
WHEN summoned to tea, Camilla, upon entering the parlour, found Sir Hugh in mournful discourse with Edgar upon the nonappearance of Dr. Orkborne.
The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold.
He led his victim away in mournful triumph, leaving the girls in a high state of indignation, and with a slight hope that Miss Monteneros might eventually turn out his consoler.
Send for cunning women, that know how to compose mournful ditties, or at least to sing them in mournful tunes and accents, and therefore are made use of at funerals to supply the want of true mourners.
In a few minutes the signs of German havoc would be hidden behind stacks of crockery and household utensils, and some of the pale women we had left in mournful contemplation of the ruins would be bargaining as sharply as ever for a sauce-pan or a butter-tub.