sorrow

Example Sentences

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As “Alpha” reaches its stylish, dreamlike ending, she hits upon an absorbing final image that suggests the collective sorrow and emotional devastation our recent plague years have wrought.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

Queen Camilla has sent a message of support for survivors of sexual violence, saying: "We stand with you and alongside you, today and every day, in solidarity, sorrow and sympathy."

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

The "people of Pakistan join the people of Iran in their hour of grief and sorrow and extend the most sincere condolences on the martyrdom" of Khamenei, he added.

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026

It is closer to music than epic, a mesmerizing suite of songs that conveys Tennyson’s private sorrow as he vacillates from unbearable agony to precarious hope.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

I'd seen how they'd changed under the heavy sorrow that weighed on their shoulders every single day.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda