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Example sentences for: melancholy

How can you use “melancholy” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

There's an edginess, a tough guy's melancholy, to Davis' sound.
Nothing but paying ever ploughs such lines in a man's face, ever set his lips as such a melancholy angle."
Peanuts, with its neurosis, unrequited love, and melancholy was newsprint Woody Allen.
In "The Jewbird," a melancholy black bird named Schwartz lands on the balcony of a New York family and insists on being taken care of--a sad nuisance of a talking bird, fleeing God knows what tragedies (the bird says, "Gevalt , a pogrom!"
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.