sad

Example Sentences

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If we didn’t come, I would’ve been sad because they need to see how it is.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026

With sad brown eyes, he offered drab, wordy pronouncements in a gentle voice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

The temptation is to read these two things ironically — sad comfort toy in one hand, authoritarian RoboCop in the other — and leave it at that.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026

The next morning, when Bonnie returns sad and tired, we learn that the other girls played hide-and-seek and left Bonnie all on her own to use their tablets.

From Salon • Jun. 21, 2026

Don Quixote was numb; Sancho, sad and confused.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios