low in spirits

Example Sentences

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Husseini could sense that his brother was low in spirits, but then again, so was nearly everyone.

From Time • Oct. 6, 2016

When he's a little low in spirits, he reads his well-thumbed Bible: "The Bible gives me lots of imagination ... it really picks me up."

From Time Magazine Archive

I am weary to-night and low in spirits.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Though I was very low in spirits, I put on a bold front to Sailor Ben, you will understand.

From The Story of a Bad Boy by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

He followed her moodily and gloomily, feeling very low in spirits as well as very much annoyed.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend