dolorous

Example Sentences

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Still, few poems are more famous than “The Raven” with its dolorous tocsin, “Nevermore.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 2, 2021

Mr. Hoffman is excellent, but you’re always aware that you’re watching an aesthetic creation built on technique, executed with craft and aided by realistic accouterments like a leather jacket, bushy sideburns and dolorous mustache.

From New York Times • Sep. 17, 2017

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

He pursued this dolorous inquiry, asking how one might again find someone shipped off down there.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson