sorrow

“I’m at a loss of words to express the sorrow and the anger I have at the treatment you’ve been dealt by the system.”

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

While the Dalai Lama expressed sorrow and questioned the efficacy of such protests, some scholars criticized him for not trying to stop the practice.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

In a TV interview, Savannah, 54, revealed her fear and sorrow about what she might have risked by showcasing her mother to the wider world.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

Composer Yuta Bandoh’s lovely score hints at Otone and Kensuke’s pent-up sorrow, even after Kakeru is returned to them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

“They are coming to the hill where you disappeared, to weep for you,” he said; “but you must not let them see you or you will bring great sorrow upon me and ruin to yourself.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

That name — “dolores,” meaning sorrows — “seemed appropriate given what was to come,” San Francisco historian Alec Scott told me.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Our existence is the result of our ancestors’ survival and ability to imagine a future worth enduring the present’s sorrows.

From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026

One thing to know: This Sundance Film Festival hit about the life and sorrows of a logger in early 20th-century America is based on a novella by Denis Johnson.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026

The manuscript that shared her story with the world quoted her as promising to “hear all their cries ... and remedy all their miseries, sorrows, and pains.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025

I dressed to their murmurs in the other room, their voices soft but strained, and I wondered if men ever talked like this, if their sorrows ever spilled into these secret cadences.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

And I sorrowed for my father’s harm as though I had been smitten myself; so sorrowed I for his unhappy old age.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019

“We are incredibly sorrowed at the loss of Officer Galvez and our thoughts and prayers are with all who knew and loved him.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2015

You’ve clucked, sorrowed and sighed at “The Pride”: plus ça change, plus c’est la même self-esteem issue.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2010

"I don't think I can take it like I used to," sorrowed Mahalia, "but I'll keep faith."

From Time Magazine Archive

The cap’n sat at the foot of Pap and Ma’s bed and said, “I’m sure sorrowed to hear ’bout Big Charlie’s run-in with that ax.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

The challenge for the author is to write a pulse-pounding thriller without sorrowing over this injustice too much.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023

“We mend, but we don’t forget,” she offers by way of comfort to the sorrowing nobleman.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022

“Words fail to describe the grateful relief that this work has brought to many a sorrowing household,” wrote David Wills, a lawyer who led the effort to create the Gettysburg National Cemetery.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2020

The pervading mood in “Trickster Feminism” is of a piece with our national mood: gloom-filled, sorrowing, yet occasionally threaded with hope.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2018

But a little corner of her mind was sorrowing that her friend’s first flight was not being made through a still summer evening of golden light over the green Pennines.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein