How to Use mournful in a Sentence

mournful

adjective

• In truth, the mixing of the mournful and the clownish is a stale trope.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 30 Apr. 2021
• The song was written in 1954 by Tomas Mendez about the dove’s mournful song.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 13 Oct. 2021
• There was grief again, and the mournful sound of bagpipes echoed again.
  — James Barron, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2019
• If the game ends in defeat, the block grows quiet and mournful.
  — Sam Whiting, SFChronicle.com, 30 Jan. 2020
• At more than 700 pages, this is the longest book in the series, the most mournful — and the slackest.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• Things kicked off this morning, and the game has a vibe that’s both festive and mournful.
  — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 18 July 2019
• The mournful poetry of the muezzin’s call, the comfort of a day measured in prayer.
  — Keija Parssinen, The New York Review of Books, 31 Jan. 2020
• Her husband awoke around 1:30 a.m. to a mournful sound.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2023
• But the scene in the city, about 90 miles west of Caracas, was quiet and mournful on Thursday.
  — Author: Vivian Sequera, Tibisay Romero, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2018
• My ears fill up with the mournful sound of the courting owls, my eyes fill up with moonlight and bright snow.
  — Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 29 Jan. 2021
• The tone that Obama strikes in lines like these is almost mournful.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2020
• Go ahead and sing that requiem for a dying league, but don’t be so mournful about it.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• Boris Vishnevsky is a slight man with thin graying hair, mournful eyes, and a beard.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2021
• Well, 2019 is making that mournful era look like child’s play.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 30 May 2019
• The singer shared the mournful track with the first half of a two-part music video directed by Jackson Tisi.
  — Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2021
• This mournful ballad has been heard around the world for over a century.
  — Selena Barrientos, Good Housekeeping, 22 Jan. 2023
• Buried by the Bernards is not a show that considers death with solemn, mournful silence.
  — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 12 Feb. 2021
• The results range from EDM to ’70s funk to mournful piano solos.
  — Nichole Perkins, Vulture, 17 Aug. 2021
• Her tone when speaking of the subject that once enthralled her is mournful.
  — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 5 Dec. 2022
• That’s why life has its happy seasons and its mournful ones.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 26 Dec. 2017
• All dogs look silly and mournful when wet; all dogs have urgent ears.
  — Leslie Kendall Dye, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
• The one whose songs, on days like these mournful anniversaries, come from what sounds like every part of the city. Juan Gabriel is here.
  — Roberto José Andrade Franco, Rolling Stone, 30 Aug. 2021
• Taps was played by a bugler in the Red Arrow veterans group, who pulled his mask down to sound the mournful salute.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Sep. 2020
• In 2016, after Trump’s victory, a mournful pall hung over the show.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2020
• Then, in the twilight, an adult wolf lets out a long, mournful howl that seems to hang in the air for several moments until the rest of the pack joins in.
  — Morgan Heim, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• Instead, the tone is mournful, suffused with dread and regret.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• Her bell did not emit mournful tolls in remembrance of the thousands of lives lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor.
  — Christine Condon, baltimoresun.com, 7 Dec. 2020
• The mournful tune poured from cars and taverns and schoolyards around Oregon during the summer of 1974.
  — oregonlive, 4 Aug. 2020
• Tree frogs, katydid, cicadas and myriad other insects joined the mournful sounds of a hoot owl.
  — Curtis Varnell, arkansasonline.com, 22 Sep. 2024
• The movie, which ends on an incredibly cruel note of irony, could use more of the mournful empathy of director David Cronenberg’s best work, including The Fly.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024