sorrow

IPA: sˈɑroʊ

noun

  • (uncountable) unhappiness, woe
  • (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
  • A surname.

verb

  • (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
  • (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
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Examples of "sorrow" in Sentences

  • The story is sad and sorrowful.
  • I know sorrowful history of dogs.
  • But the overwhelming feeling is of sorrow.
  • The men drown their sorrows in the bottle.
  • Of course, it was a silly and sorrowful war.
  • The poem is expressed with a sorrowful tone.
  • How to oppose this sorrowful state of things
  • The candle of the wise in this darkness of sorrow.
  • And now our sorrow is as great as was then our joy.
  • It is a picture of the deepest sorrow and desolation.
  • It also inflects the sorrow of the story with humour.
  • That our chiefs had sailed in sorrow from the glens of the North;
  • +and not only him but also me, that I might not have [9] sorrow upon sorrow+.
  • She suffered much from rheumatism, which she described as a sorrow in her bones.
  • There's one thing I want to say: see, if we know that they were one with God, let's look up and not wallow in sorrow because death is never the end of anything.
  • They tell us that the common idea is that an animal is actuated by emotions which we know as sorrow, joy, love, pleasure, pain, cruelty, or some other of these states; but that it is not so.
  • In a few hours after dispatching this letter I shall have shaken the dust from my feet and departed in sorrow from a neighbourhood and army with both of which I have been associated for months.
  • The arms of the unloved girl close about the formless air and more real than her loneliness and her sorrow is the imagined embrace, the awaited warm, close pressure of the hands, the fancied gaze.
  • The Sunday that came after that Saturday was showery, sunny, and rainy by turns, like a child who having had a great fit of crying and sobbing can't get over it all at once, and keeps breaking into little bursts of tears again, long after the sorrow is all over.
  • Australias sorrow is everyones grief he came, he did what he had to do lived life so brief .. footprints on the sands of time unfulfilled dreams carried forward for the generation next as tribute to Steve the great barrier Reef .. two steves, two worlds, one belief .. posted on 30 sep 2006

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