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Example sentences for: sorrowful

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"In voting No, they too will be expressing their desire for peace, and their sorrowful belief that it is not, in reality, on offer."
The tone of Elizabeth comes nearer to the nihilistic relish of Jacobeans such as John Ford and John Webster than to the more sorrowful horror of the Elizabethan dramatists Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare.
He's both inside and outside the action: He knows when to rock your world and when to induce a state of sorrowful detachment.
Raise your hand if you believe Schippers a) was feeling sorrowful; b) had prayed that his months of effort to nail the president would be in vain; c) was being frank; d) had no settled view on the whole matter even after analyzing the Starr report, until "our investigation" (whatever that consisted of).
Furthermore, our gratitude to Longman and W9 for saying something about the size of their microstructures is offset by our sorrowful recognition of how little they say.