sadness
Example Sentences
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Participants also reported lower levels of negative emotions, including sadness and guilt.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 18, 2026
There is a great sadness in this book and also the occasional miraculous story of couples finding each other or of parents discovering a child who survived.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
“It is with profound sadness that we must share that our beloved father, grandfather, uncle, and brother Robert Carradine has passed away,” the Carradine family said in a statement following the actor’s death.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026
"These small windows that the world sees, the little openings here and there including secret schools for girls, are just meant to fool everybody," she laments with visible sadness.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
It is my great sadness that my interactions with Edda St. James have come to an end.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing sadness
Obama's speech at Connecticut vigil
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ness
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