melancholy
Example Sentences
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Rather, it is a riveting, haunting, incisive and melancholy document that provides the ultimate example of a writer bearing witness and holding evil to account.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026
But Mr. Hunter’s economy of means, which extends to often terse or quiet dialogue undergirded by melancholy subtext, only enhances the tenderness and humanity of his writing.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
Scenic designer Beowulf Boritt’s quaint tearoom seems both real and hallucinatory, with a melancholy rain pouring down in the background.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
He scored a Top 20 hit in 2012 with the melancholy single Overload.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026
Ellidyr had spoken to no one since leaving the melancholy Gwystyl, and Taran had seen the cold rage in his eyes after the companions’ decision to press on to the Marshes of Morva.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
Vocabulary lists containing melancholy
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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