How to Use melancholy in a Sentence

melancholy

1 of 2 noun

• What makes the piece so striking is the grandeur, and the huge melancholy of it.
  — Jesse Hamlin, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 June 2018
• Many of the customers were wearing masks; and there was a hint of melancholy in the air.
  — Keith Pandolfi, The Enquirer, 19 Aug. 2021
• There’s a deep melancholy to this episode that is hard to work through at first.
  — Cate Young, Vulture, 27 May 2021
• Guadagnino wanted the solitude and melancholy of the landscape to set the tone of the film.
  — Harper's BAZAAR, 19 Jan. 2023
• Her hair is pulled back, her arms crossed against the cold, her face melancholy.
  — The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
• Their works share a melancholy woven from chiaroscuro — the play of light and shadow.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2023
• There’s a sense of melancholy in all your work, from your shorts to your features.
  — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2023
• And the city welcomed it, wrestled a steady heat from my melancholy.
  — Megan Fernandes, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• Yet there’s hope among the broad strokes of fantasy and melancholy here.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2023
• Building around him, only to lose him, sent waves of melancholy through the team.
  — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 28 Nov. 2022
• Once a cure for melancholy, the National now feel like a cause.
  — James Robins, Vulture, 1 May 2023
• But the nostalgia mixed with melancholy as some of the most revered figures showed the effects of age, and the game’s toll.
  — Kalyn Kahler, SI.com, 11 June 2019
• But even the masks that Ruiz and his relatives wore couldn’t hide their melancholy.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2021
• Despite the faint air of melancholy, a raucous good time was had during the two-hour show.
  — Donna Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2019
• Even so, Blackk has so much feeling in his eyes, filling the screen with his melancholy.
  — Jourdain Searles, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Feb. 2023
• To live the goth lifestyle is to reject the mainstream and embrace a bit of darkness and melancholy.
  — Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
• The tempo is slow, the piano sketches out the chords on the upbeat, and the melody carries a sense of gentle melancholy.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 14 Nov. 2022
• The film is laced with dry humor but also poignancy and notes of melancholy.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2024
• While very much a feel-good movie, there’s a wistful melancholy that ebbs and flows throughout as well.
  — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 10 Nov. 2021
• But the Christmas–New Year’s setting adds a nice touch of melancholy to the proceedings.
  — Bob Sassone, Vulture, 29 Nov. 2022
• The actual song is pop, but there’s a real melancholy to it.
  — Selma Fonseca, Billboard, 28 June 2019
• The end of a film festival always fills me with an equal sense of relief and melancholy.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
• The knocking pulse of the song and airy background vocals belie its melancholy.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 23 June 2023
• Listen to each proclamation of mirth and melancholy, love and hate.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2024
• Her bouts of melancholy are an old story with the family.
  — Vivian Gornick, New York Times, 14 June 2018
• At first, her most troubling moods were described by Ernie as bouts of melancholy.
  — Dave Lieber, Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2021
• The Irish melancholy will join me tomorrow, no less real than the food we’re blessed to be eating.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 25 Nov. 2021
• Even in the maternity ward, the sight of women cradling babies roused the old melancholy.
  — Washington Post, 6 May 2022
• Mulligan still does her best to imbue damsel with a deeper melancholy, but the script doesn’t give her much to work with.
  — Janey Tracey, EW.com, 29 Feb. 2024
• This pet-friendly brewery assures that even if the breakup stirs up some melancholy, man’s best friend won’t be far away.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 14 Mar. 2024

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melancholy

2 of 2 adjective

• She was in a melancholy mood.
• He became quiet and melancholy as the hours slowly passed.
• And the mood, by all rights, should have been melancholy.
  — Michael Silver, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Sep. 2022
• The lines of the song had always followed the same slow, melancholy arcs.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2023
• The pied piper of lost souls, the melancholy maestro.. tonite was your night.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2023
• The light is warm, and bright but melancholy music plays.
  — Siobhan Burke, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• But that’s not the end of the story, which has a melancholy coda in Greece.
  — Deborah Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 May 2017
• Much like the myth, Avalon is full of grandeur as much as melancholy.
  — Jill Krajewski, SPIN, 8 June 2022
• While the kids play, the grown-ups brood and fret, and those nearing the end of life grow melancholy or bitter.
  — Terrence Rafferty, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2020
• The mood is melancholy, but the music is going strange places.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 12 Oct. 2022
• But the melancholy grew with the projections and music.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2021
• The overall effect is a more melancholy read of Mitchell's lyrics.
  — Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2023
• Need to get in the melancholy mood before tickets go on sale?
  — oregonlive, 23 Jan. 2023
• This time of year gets kind of melancholy for me because, is this my last year?
  — Mike Anthony, courant.com, 13 May 2018
• Some melancholy—not to say fearful—thoughts crop up in my head.
  — Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2019
• There’s a melancholy in his face that Bradley echoes in her own images.
  — Ismail Muhammad, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2020
• How, then, to account for the melancholy that veils the whole endeavor?
  — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 16 July 2021
• So melancholy now, on the lonely gray seas, is tempered with sight of shore.
  — Patricia Highsmith, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• But Soccer Mommy’s melancholy lyrics hit you right in the gut.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 6 Dec. 2020
• Is anything more romantic and melancholy than a walk in the rain in Paris?
  — Kat Bein, Billboard, 14 Mar. 2018
• The whale was even dubbed wayward, a melancholy word if there ever was one.
  — Matthew T. Hall, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Her words are a mix of melancholy and matter-of-factness.
  — USA Today, 12 Mar. 2021
• Both of their sessions were melancholy, in stark contrast to the upbeat mood in the Dodgers’ clubhouse down the hall.
  — Brian Dulik, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2023
• But the sprightly nature of the tunes and arrangements means the melancholy of the words is only part of the story.
  — Mark Richardson, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022
• With the space closing, his final show there was a mix of deadpan and melancholy notes.
  — Photographs By Nina Westervelt, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• But the tone the director sets here is more melancholy than abrasive.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• And the general mood of melancholy that has settled over the country like a thick fog.
  — Kenzie Bryant, vanityfair.com, 11 Sep. 2017
• Or does the genre seem to demand a certain melancholy, an air of unease?
  — Polly Rosenwaike, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Nov. 2017
• But the next couple of takes are infused with a more melancholy silence.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 4 Aug. 2022
• A week before Porno for Pyros hit the road, Farrell is melancholy.
  — Pamela Chelin, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024