sad
Example Sentences
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“Strictly's a cross-generational watch in my household - my daughter messages her grandma every week as the dances are happening - and I'd be sad if that cycle was disrupted for a year,” she said.
From BBC
Start Bay Inn, in Devon, said it was "really sad" to announce its Boxing Day swim had been cancelled.
From BBC
William, who Rona chirpily informs us has “a rare mucous membrane disorder,” is happy to get “lugubrious”: “Meaning extremely sad and droopy? A topic I am all too familiar with.”
One small-business owner cherishes Mr. Diamond’s many sad songs, which he enjoys listening to on the anniversary of his wife’s death.
"It's a sad ending," Claire Atkinson, whose biography of Rupert Murdoch will come out next year, told us on The Media Show.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
