dolorous
Example Sentences
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Race features prominently in “Butts,” including the disturbing, dolorous history of Sarah Baartman, a Khoe woman from South Africa whose ample backside became a freak-show spectacle in London in 1810.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2022
“Is it inflating the symphony of the lovable Belgian,” Gilman wondered in the New York Herald Tribune, “to rank it above the dolorous swan song of Tchaikovsky?”
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022
Sleep-deprived and dolorous in nostalgia, I’d reverted to my old role as the gloomy one.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 22, 2016
Hunt and Underwood, for example, sat down for most of their number, while James Bay and Tori Kelly slowed down their medley of songs to a dolorous shuffle.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 16, 2016
She was slumped over and her face was dolorous.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Vocabulary lists containing dolorous
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