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Example sentences for: saddened

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His boyhood was marked by immersion in astronomy and telescope-making, but saddened by the painful illness of his sister.
Deeply saddened ... heartfelt sympathies ... sincerest condolences."
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 deeply saddened to read of the death of Willie Morris, someone I never met but long admired.
Now, I was saddened to see that her words, compared with those of today's ragged individualists, were thin and emancipated.