sorrow

Example Sentences

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His father, Richard Taylor, once said he wanted his son's name "to be a symbol of greatness, not sorrow."

From BBC

And there’s a sort of incandescent poetic beauty to all that, and there’s just the sorrow to it because you also realize it’s the last of that moment.

From Los Angeles Times

Interim leader Muhammad Yunus expressed in a statement his "deep shock and sorrow over the news of casualties in various districts".

From Barron's

"I will carry this sorrow in my conscience," he wrote, asking the victims' mothers for forgiveness.

From Barron's

If he had known his inbound plane was backed up, he would have reorganized his whole day—and he wouldn’t have been drowning his sorrows in queso.

From The Wall Street Journal