Example sentences for: sorrow

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

  • Una-brother David Kaczynski pens a plea for no death penalty: "There is no way around the fear and sorrow that comes with knowing you may have a hand in causing the death of someone you love ...

  • Looking again at the poetry written between 1889 and 1914, one notices the scattered petals of familiar flowers, the secondhand imagery, the automatic despondency (far too much "ancient sorrow"), the druids, fairies, hermits, and witches.

  • I suppose that there are people who feel happiness or sorrow or jealousy or triumph directly, without any combination of words, either remembered or made up for the purpose.

  • When he realizes, for instance, that he has no choice but to bust someone's head, he prefaces the brutal act with a look of weariness, even sorrow, for the blood he's about to draw.

  • The newer ballets aim for more universal and fundamental emotions than amazement--for a sense of beauty, or joy, or love, or sorrow.


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