Example sentences for: mournful

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

  • The mournful lament of the single pipe is a sound that is always associated with Scotland, and you will certainly hear it as you travel around the city.

  • "When I appeared in this committee room a little over two months ago," he said (mournful as the Walrus in Through the Looking Glass ), "it was merely to analyze the [Starr report] referral and to report to you.

  • After reinstalling and receiving increasingly mournful error messages ("Unable to go on," "Floating point exception") and another core dump, we called it quits.

  • That is the mournful keening you hear these days from about half the folks in Washington.

  • It's infused with a mournful 1950s-era Existentialism, and Paz's French influence pushes him into abstraction.


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