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Example sentences for: saddened

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I was saddened by the news of Sidney Greenbaum's death [XXIII,1], and yet made less so somehow by the thought that he died in the middle of what he spent his life doing.
I am proud to have been a partner with Arthur Andersen in its glory days, but I'm shocked and saddened by what happened to the firm during the past few years.
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.
I was surprised and saddened to see David M. Mastio's article, "Give This Subsidy a D-," appear in Slate.
When I heard he had gone to Newsweek I was saddened, for to me that meant the end of the "Bimbo Beat" for Isikoff.