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Example sentences for: saddened

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When I heard he had gone to Newsweek I was saddened, for to me that meant the end of the "Bimbo Beat" for Isikoff.
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 was surprised and saddened to see David M. Mastio's article, "Give This Subsidy a D-," appear in Slate.
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."