How to Use sorrowful in a Sentence

sorrowful

adjective

• And the deaths are just the tip of a sorrowful iceberg.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 11 July 2019
• The Braves said in a statement that the news was sorrowful.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 12 Sep. 2022
• At the other end of the bar was the curtained hatch to the back kitchen, then the sorrowful passageway to the jacks.
  — Kevin Barry, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• Kwok cracks open Sylvie’s heart, spilling its sorrowful contents for all the world to see.
  — The Washington Post, The Mercury News, 6 June 2019
• The sorrowful words aren't the only allure of the single.
  — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 3 Apr. 2019
• The Post’s voice just might persuade Biden to end a sorrowful state of affairs.
  — Washington Post, 5 July 2024
• Eno writes droll, sorrowful jokes that land late enough that your mind doesn’t have time to be amused or upset.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2021
• This time the mood seemed more hopeful than bitter and sorrowful.
  — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• Whether overtly sorrowful or just confused, these are guys who have a lot to work on.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Aug. 2023
• In the back of her mind is a college girlfriend whose life veered in a sorrowful direction.
  — New York Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• The circumstances that dictated the need for the Negro Leagues are painful and sorrowful.
  — Bob Kendrick, Washington Post, 17 June 2024
• Then there is his massive, sorrowful Great Dane, who now belongs to her.
  — The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• Still, sorrowful details of those killed were starting to emerge.
  — al, 28 Aug. 2021
• Many hopeful young upstarts end up cast in the game's scrapheap, but none feel more sorrowful than Götze's decline.
  — SI.com, 15 May 2018
• Deprived of her children full time, a good mother would feel sorrowful and bereft.
  — Lara Bazelon, Slate Magazine, 13 June 2017
• Giselle returns to her grave; Albrecht is left safe but sorrowful.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Sep. 2019
• The music by Antonín Dvořak is full and sorrowful and sets the mood as the five couples dance in lyrical, emotive movements.
  — Kate Evans, The Mercury News, 1 Mar. 2017
• Some, however, were sorrowful that a piece of their childhood would be lost.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• Then, a sorrowful adieu as paradise transformed into a pair of flights.
  — Irv Erdos Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2021
• The history of medicine is filled with great achievement and sorrowful failure.
  — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 17 June 2022
• The family’s tears slid into their masks as Luis Chavez, 36, played long, sorrowful notes on his trumpet.
  — Silvia Foster-Frau, ExpressNews.com, 1 Aug. 2020
• This isn’t a lowlight so much as an acknowledgment that the event was often deeply sorrowful.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2021
• As men prepared to remove the off-white coffin, women sang a sorrowful hymn into the darkness.
  — New York Times, 30 May 2022
• And on Thursday, President Donald Trump paid his respects in a visit that led the quiet, sorrowful crowd to erupt in boos and chants.
  — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 25 Sep. 2020
• Young Harris College released a sorrowful statement Monday evening in the wake of Artez’s death.
  — Matt Bruce, ajc, 30 June 2022
• Burna Boy kicks off the track with his siren-like humming before sorrowful strings and his desolate vocals take over the verses.
  — Heran Mamo, Billboard, 24 Jan. 2023
• The nonprofit leader was at first outraged and then sorrowful.
  — John Byrne, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2022
• The wall, designed by Maya Lin and dedicated in 1982, drew scathing criticism from some who deemed it too abstract and sorrowful.
  — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2020
• Curtis says neither she nor Yeoh was versed in improv, but both gave themselves over to the process, bringing each other to tears during one sorrowful scene.
  — Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2022
• Clearly, all of us should call for a show of ethical, sorrowful, and genuine (ESG) contrition.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 25 Sep. 2020

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024