mournful

Example Sentences

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Aside from a mournful clarinet line in the first part of its third and final movement, the work had a surprisingly ebullient spirt for something composed by a Dane in 1944.

From The Wall Street Journal

And it was simple—a low and mournful moan.

From Literature

We’re not shielded from the horrors, but they almost always happen offstage, implied or alluded to in the sudden vanishing of a loved one or a mournful reference to a death.

From The Wall Street Journal

“There’s this mournful, slightly atonal quality to his compositions,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times

As for artfully implying this event picture’s deft blend of action and drama, the campaign chose a contemplative, mournful image of its star for the main poster.

From Los Angeles Times