sorrowful
IPA: sˈɑroʊfʌɫ
adjective
- exhibiting sorrow; dejected; distraught; sad. (of a person)
- Producing sorrow; causing grief.
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Examples of "sorrowful" in Sentences
- The story is sad and sorrowful.
- 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 king gazed in sorrowful amazement at the change.
- [Page 83] making in the Pleasant Ridge; sorrowful is the cry of the blackbird in Leiter Laeig.
- And for a little while they halted in sorrowful silence at the place where the windmill had once stood.
- Were these miserable beings, who, worn and wretched, passed in sorrowful procession, the sole remnants of the race of man, which, like
- And you can see, in the background, Jesus turning to hear his beloved disciple renounce him, his expression sorrowful as Peter’s is tormented.
- Note, The case of true believers, though sometimes it may be sorrowful, is never comfortless, because they are never orphans: for God is their Father, who is an everlasting Father.
- If I were to give you a hint of what we feel at the sight of your handwriting, and at the receipt of a word from yourself about yourself, and the dear boys, and the precious little girls, I should begin to be sorrowful, which is rather the tendency of my mind at the close of another long book.
- Oh, yes! you knew and loved her very well, and her death will have carried you back in sorrowful memory through how many years of constant friendly affectionate intercourse to the bright days when we were all young together, and now "behold I, I alone am left," of the four children of my father, left behind by them all, two of whom in natural course of human existence should have survived me.
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