melancholy
Example Sentences
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She finds a solution when she meets and marries John Brinton, a melancholy, widowed physician.
From Washington Post
There is an extraordinary, very poetic melancholy about a sun going down.
From Salon
For his part, Mr. Reid disclaimed any psychedelic influence and said that his abstract, melancholy words came from “books, not drugs.”
From Washington Post
They were just her and her piano producing an intimate, meditative - and unsettling - melancholy informed by a fascinating life punctuated by the momentous events her country experienced during the last century.
From BBC
There’s something fundamentally melancholy, though, about all this looking back.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
