Example Sentences

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It looked like a snow angel, but also like a mummy — an image of both levity and dolefulness, neither all good nor all bad.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017

But in “The Night Stages” it arrives late, and Ms. Urquhart’s unremitting dolefulness has already deadened our nerve endings to the heartache she wants to conjure.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2015

Where the network’s “True Detective” occasionally broke its dolefulness with the slyest, philosophically artful wink at an audience riveted by its mystery, “The Leftovers” grafts more unhappiness onto unhappiness.

From Washington Post

Miss Tita shook her head, full of her dolefulness.

From The Aspern Papers by James, Henry

“Well, you can’t deny there’s bears, anyway,” she retorted, with ready dolefulness.

From Jessica Trent: Her Life on a Ranch by Raymond, Evelyn