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Example sentences for: mournful

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Today's Washington Post ran a mournful headline that read, "Hundreds Are Killed, Millions Left Homeless by Asian Floods."
That is the mournful keening you hear these days from about half the folks in Washington.
"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.
It's infused with a mournful 1950s-era Existentialism, and Paz's French influence pushes him into abstraction.