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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.
Deeply saddened ... heartfelt sympathies ... sincerest condolences."
Herb was deeply saddened by the death of his wife, Mildred, a few years ago.
The authors wrote that they were "saddened and frightened" by the implications of this choice, and they blamed the white intelligentsia for legitimizing it.
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.