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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:

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.
His "melancholy" is a well-known Jewish disease.
It's a "touching but melancholy variation on a tune we've heard many times" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ), and reviewers seem a bit tired of the tune.
The Communist leaders he knew even spoke grandly of a "war against melancholy."
It's as though their melancholy derived from the excruciating imperative to be blacks performing according to the conventions of blackface.