mournful
Example Sentences
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He also renders the mournful ballad “A House Is Not a Home” with sensitivity.
Even so, my seat mate demanded to be moved, offering a mournful “sorry, mate” as a flight attendant whisked him a few rows up.
From Los Angeles Times
I didn’t know just how mournful to be, though, as the festival marched along, it became clear there was a space for nostalgic reflections.
From Los Angeles Times
We hear the mournful horn of the lanchita, the ferry that goes back and forth from Havana to Regla, as it sets off yet again across the harbor.
From Literature
Aside from a mournful clarinet line in the first part of its third and final movement, the work had a surprisingly ebullient spirt for something composed by a Dane in 1944.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
