Example sentences for: sorrow

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

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

  • Then he employed the non-apology apology style so favored by discredited Western politicians, expressing his "deepest sorrow if there were any mistakes, failures or shortcomings."

  • 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.

  • Heart's ease and only I, like parallels, run on,Whose equal length keep equal breadth and never meet in one;Yet for not wronging him, my thoughts, my sorrow's cell,Shall not run out, though leak they will for liking him so well.

  • To our immeasurable sorrow, Mickey died suddenly on November 9, 1989, and we wish this letter and his list of heteronyms to serve as a memorial to him.


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