melancholy
Example Sentences
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“It smells of melancholy and what-the-hell-just-happened,” the fake ad states.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
Rather, it is a riveting, haunting, incisive and melancholy document that provides the ultimate example of a writer bearing witness and holding evil to account.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 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
There was something chilling in the thought, something a little melancholy, and looking at the clock I saw that five more minutes had gone by.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
Vocabulary lists containing melancholy
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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