sadness

Example Sentences

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These kids looked like they’d swallowed the one that had taken down the Titanic, and I couldn’t help but feel a tug of sadness for them.

From Literature

She spent hours in front of this memorial altar, drowning in sadness.

From Literature

Or maybe it was that the clowning that marked the career of Ron Luciano masked a deeper sadness that finally claimed the life of baseball’s happy warrior in a size-50 extralong dark blazer.

From The Wall Street Journal

Brendan Grant said it was an awful tragedy and the sadness was reflected in the Mass.

From BBC

His heart filled with the deepest sadness he had ever known.

From Literature