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Example sentences for: melancholy

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dims sadness; depression; melancholy: an attack of the dims .
It’s a melancholy sight that recalls Hungary’s claim on that part of the land north of the river, lost in the punitive 1920 Treaty of Trianon.
British press coverage of the crisis was generally pessimistic, with the Times ' editorial Friday saying that Northern Ireland finds itself once again "at a melancholy crossroads under a lowering sky" and that its future is now "a space colonised by fear."
John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln all probably suffered from "melancholy"--or depression--but their mental health didn't enter the public debate.
The soundtrack is melancholy classical piano.