melancholy
Example Sentences
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It glides by smoothly, and Ms. Mann’s lilting, melancholy songs are hypnotically lovely, but the characters’ anguish and psychological distress are only faintly sketched in.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
“It smells of melancholy and what-the-hell-just-happened,” the fake ad states.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
In a beautifully melancholy story, the author tells of finding a machine named Paragon in a pool hall and setting himself the target of achieving the highest score just short of rolling the machine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Once brash and unapologetic, his humour now carries a quiet melancholy - yet it lands with the precise timing of someone who has learned what it takes to survive.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
He visited every bookshop that carried melancholy German poetry in translation, and every art gallery that showed sentimental watercolors of mountain lakes and alpine meadows.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
Vocabulary lists containing melancholy
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