melancholy
Example Sentences
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It is the novel’s desolate mood, finally, and Ms. McPherson’s evocation of a melancholy landscape that anchor both her plot and her heroine.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
He says he understands their melancholy, as he finds Christmas depressing and annually looks forward to its end.
From Los Angeles Times • May 11, 2026
“De Gaulle’s thinking, by contrast, was permeated by a sense of the inevitable and by a melancholy, sometimes apocalyptic, belief that all human enterprises will fail sooner or later.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
"My life is a broken roller coaster, but maybe I'm the only one to blame," they sing on the melancholy Merry Go Round.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
Hungry, weak, in pain, he starts to crash into melancholy.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
Vocabulary lists containing melancholy
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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