Example Sentences

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Although such sorrowfulness might send Ward to Spotify, Cooper believes this kind of event can actually increase loyalty to radio.

From Washington Post • Sep. 10, 2022

The pervading atmosphere of sorrowfulness in much of Josquin’s music, whether applied to sacred music or secular songs of unhappy love, is typical of his strife-filled time.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

There the idiot sat, portrait in hand, encountering me with a look of unutterable sorrowfulness.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 by Various

Pray, now," with a sort of sociable sorrowfulness, slowly sliding along the rail, "Pray, now, my young friend, what volume have you there?

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

If he was As beautiful as he is ugly now, And raised his brows against his Maker, sure All sorrowfulness must proceed from him.

From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)