sad

Example Sentences

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“We were all very sad and stressed when my dad was very sick and Sharon just understood the situation and was very professional.”

From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026

“The obsession with this very narrow corner of the market, this $2 trillion slice of levered lending, is, frankly, a failure of imagination,” Rowan sad.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

"As much as this angers me it makes me really sad… there are better and brighter paths for our young people if they are guided in the correct way," Middleton said.

From BBC • May 6, 2026

On the sad and evocative ballad “Loneliest Girl,” she uses small pauses for rhythmic emphasis to foreground rhymes that complicate the action with each occurrence.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

It was silly for someone to give him permission to be sad.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman