Example Sentences

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“I just think at the end of the day, it is saddening to me that we are now in this moment.”

From Washington Times • Jun. 18, 2023

“This ugly component of Stanford’s history, confirmed by this new report, is saddening and deeply troubling,” Tessier-Lavigne said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 13, 2022

Given the resistance she meets along the way, especially toward the end of the series, it is saddening but not surprising that she has since left the school.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2018

Copland wrote, “It is saddening to think that Fine was not fated to carry through to full fruition the new directions clearly inherent in the best pages of the Symphony.”

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2014

Mr. Gladstone's comment in his diary is brief: 'The whole impression is saddening; it is all indolence, decay, stagnation; the image of God seems as if it were nowhere.

From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859 by Morley, John