Example sentences for: sadness

How can you use “sadness” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • You're trying to solve the riddle of female sadness itself.

  • It is a myth that persistent feelings of helplessness and hopelessness are inevitable and permanent consequences of advanced life-threatening illness [ 33 ] . Most patients with a serious illness experience periods of intense situational sadness and anxiety accompanied by depressive symptoms.

  • Depressed mothers have been found to display negative behaviors towards their infants, which have been shown to adversely affect the child during infancy and in later childhood [ 2 3 ] . A more minor and transient condition known as postpartum blues has a much higher incidence, affecting 50% to 80% of new mothers [ 4 ] . Its symptoms, which include weeping, sadness, irritability, anxiety, and confusion, often resolve by the second week of delivery [ 5 ] , but can still have a negative impact on postpartum mothers in the precarious days following birth.

  • The Russians were a great people, it said, and "to see them represented by a valetudinarian buffoon and exploited by a corrupt regime after 70 years of totalitarianism fills one with deep sadness."

  • Not words of sadness, but a formal expression of apology."


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