sorrow

As much as you might plan to stay involved in their lives through frequent video chats and phone calls, mild wistfulness can turn into intense sorrow with each passing month.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 30, 2026

Financial Supervisory Service Gov. Lee Chan-jin expressed sorrow at failing to halt the launch of single-stock leveraged ETFs in May, saying it might have aggravated market swings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

Guingamp paid tribute to Kies on X, writing: "Guingamp has had the sorrow of learning of the death of Kenzo Kies, a young player with the club."

From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026

"Despite the sorrow and grief at seeing the city destroyed... we are filled with hope that we will rebuild," she said.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Nat thought he had learned to face his sorrow, until they sighted Cape Ann and he knew that in a few hours he would be home.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham

That name — “dolores,” meaning sorrows — “seemed appropriate given what was to come,” San Francisco historian Alec Scott told me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

It’s not just a byproduct of social media, 24/7 cable news and our shared tendency to drowning in constant updates on the sorrows of the world.

From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026

In post-post-war American culture, suburbs and small towns are more often than not a stage for secrets, sorrows, scandals and satire.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026

"Her films, her voice, her dazzling glory, her initials, her sorrows, her generous passion for animals, her face that became Marianne, Brigitte Bardot embodied a life of freedom," he said.

From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026

“The joys come close upon the sorrows this time, and I rather think the changes have begun,” said Mrs. March.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

And I sorrowed for my father’s harm as though I had been smitten myself; so sorrowed I for his unhappy old age.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019

“We are incredibly sorrowed at the loss of Officer Galvez and our thoughts and prayers are with all who knew and loved him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2015

You’ve clucked, sorrowed and sighed at “The Pride”: plus ça change, plus c’est la même self-esteem issue.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2010

Innumerable American children sorrowed; nurses worried; mothers wrote, letters to Mr. Cox.

From Time Magazine Archive

But in their grief and at the hour of death, men could turn for compassion to the goddess who sorrowed and the goddess who died.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The challenge for the author is to write a pulse-pounding thriller without sorrowing over this injustice too much.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023

“We mend, but we don’t forget,” she offers by way of comfort to the sorrowing nobleman.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

“Words fail to describe the grateful relief that this work has brought to many a sorrowing household,” wrote David Wills, a lawyer who led the effort to create the Gettysburg National Cemetery.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2020

In other words, how does a three-pound lump of dendrites and axons and sodium channels create a loving, sorrowing, self-knowing self?

From New York Times ● Oct. 16, 2018

It hits the weakest, most sorrowing part of me; but I am only a surrogate, for who knows what lack, what loss.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood