sadness
IPA: sˈædnʌs
noun
- (uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
- (countable) An event in one's life that causes sadness.
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Examples of "sadness" in Sentences
- Yet Joe's "sadness" is reserved only for John McCain.
- Cloture would fail and then Lott would “more in sadness than in anger” withdraw the measure.
- Tibetans around me were shaking their heads in sadness, because they were fearful for him, and others were openly agreeing with him.
- For who would willingly speak on these subjects, if as often as we used the term sadness or fear, we should thereby be compelled to be sad or fearful?
- You wouldn't think of the phrase "bent-backed" or the word "sadness" were you to see the current exhibition at The de Young Museum in San Francisco titled
- You wouldn't think of the phrase "bent-backed" or the word "sadness" were you to see the current exhibition at The de Young Museum in San Francisco titled The Masters of Venice.
- Sure this dusty road has been walked before, but the band are pretty savvy wallowers: They understand their sadness is an American institution and that part of the tragedy of their roots revival is that this heartbreaking music needs to be revived at all.
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