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Example sentences for: saddened

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I looked at the scratchings on my legal pad--the earnings and the years and the path to wealth--and I was saddened by them.
Now, I was saddened to see that her words, compared with those of today's ragged individualists, were thin and emancipated.
I found myself deeply troubled by her fantastical notions and saddened by the possibility that her children might be taught these same ideas.
It added that the pope must also have been saddened not only by "Sexgate" but also by Clinton's attacks on Sudan, Afghanistan, and Iraq, since "in 1993, at the time of their first meeting in Denver, he probably saw in the young Clinton, so socially committed, a potential partner in the reconstruction of a just and peaceful world after a century of hot and cold wars."
Herb was deeply saddened by the death of his wife, Mildred, a few years ago.