Words similar to melancholy

Example sentences for: melancholy

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

And because, refreshed by my vacation, I want only to please you, here is the uncharacteristically melancholy entry from the 1960 edition of the World Book Encyclopedia describing the invention of the popular ride:
The decaying, cream-colored building still exudes a certain haughty, if melancholy, grandeur.
One wouldn't want to characterize the diminutive, balding rock star as being (in Cole Porter's marvelous phrase) down in the depths on the 90 th floor, but a faint tinge of melancholy hangs in the air.
Too many facts, too much information: We need to make politics more beautiful, melancholy, strange.
Happiness melted into melancholy, sadness into ennui.