dolorous

Example Sentences

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Race features prominently in “Butts,” including the disturbing, dolorous history of Sarah Baartman, a Khoe woman from South Africa whose ample backside became a freak-show spectacle in London in 1810.

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2022

Sleep-deprived and dolorous in nostalgia, I’d reverted to my old role as the gloomy one.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2016

Hunt and Underwood, for example, sat down for most of their number, while James Bay and Tori Kelly slowed down their medley of songs to a dolorous shuffle.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2016

That dolorous unity finally broke down with the appearance of Séléka, which inflicted more suffering on Central Africans than they were willing to bear.

From Slate • Aug. 29, 2014

Each side continually explores the limits of the other’s tolerance, as in flights of nuclear bombers over the Arctic wastes; the Vietnam and Afghanistan wars—a few entries from a long and dolorous list.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan