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

The young girl shook her head melancholically, made no answer, and continued to gaze at the sky.

From The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Sue, Eugène