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

I recall how perfectly New York City played itself those dolorous dollar days after Bowie’s death.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2021

My Quichotte is not dolorous of countenance, but cheerful; an optimist, hopeful, believing in love.

From The Guardian • Oct. 5, 2019

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

From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 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