melancholy
Example Sentences
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He scored a Top 20 hit in 2012 with the melancholy single Overload.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026
Cue the synthetic flute chords of “Veridis Quo,” scoring their mutual melancholy.
From Salon • Mar. 1, 2026
This version is easily the equal of the original: fizzing with humor, and infused with a tenderness and melancholy sympathy for all its characters, mostly members of a family from the so-called 1%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
Near the start of “All That’s Left of You,” an elderly mother addresses the camera, her eyes melancholy but her face determined.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026
It rests instead in a space of thoughtful melancholy.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
Vocabulary lists containing melancholy
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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