Example Sentences

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“Every time I pull my hair, well, it’s only out of fear/That you’ll find me ugly and one day you’ll disappear,” the 21-year-old British musician confesses, melancholically, to an unappreciative guy.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022

Watkins was a runner, and she’s melancholically aware of the dislocations that her ambition has caused.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 6, 2017

Even so, Waltz is melancholically and romantically gentle, and the closing In Two Minds is a quiet improv conversation.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2012

That's a melancholically pretty image of the inevitable cold apocalypse.

From The Guardian • May 18, 2012

"Octave," answered the old man melancholically, "I am one hundred years old—I fought at the battle of Poitiers against the Arabs."

From The Carlovingian Coins Or The Daughters of Charlemagne. A Tale of the Ninth Century by Sue, Eugène