SADNESS in a Sentence

Learn SADNESS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

292 example sentences for SADNESS, such as:

1. Henceforth, there must be no sadness anywhere.
2. Your article brought back sad memories for me.
3. He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness.
4. When I am sad, I take refuge in remembering happier times.
5. It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.

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 Meanings and Examples of SADNESS
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sadness
 n.  emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being
 n.  the state of being sad
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  That which exists was for this good and rare priest a permanent subject of sadness which sought consolation.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
2  The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
3  He was wrinkled and toothless, and he had the beginning of a bald spot, of which he himself said with sadness, the skull at thirty, the knee at forty.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
4  Nothing remained to her except her beautiful eyes, which inspired pain, because, large as they were, it seemed as though one beheld in them a still larger amount of sadness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III—THE LARK
5  He walked slowly, with drooping head, in an attitude of reflection and sadness.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—HE WHO SEEKS TO BETTER HIMSELF MAY RENDER HIS S...
6  She was melancholy with an obscure sadness of which she did not herself know the secret.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—TWO DO NOT MAKE A PAIR
7  It touched the royal personages only with sadness and precaution.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WELL CUT
8  Jean Valjean was hurt by this sadness, and heart-broken at this gentleness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—TO ONE SADNESS OPPOSE A SADNESS AND A HALF
9  One feels in it the wild and ancient sadness of those vagrants of the Court of Miracles who played at cards with packs of their own, some of which have come down to us.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
10  He began to lose his teeth, which added to his sadness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
11  He hated Wellington with a downright hatred which pleased the multitude; and, for seventeen years, he majestically preserved the sadness of Waterloo, paying hardly any attention to intervening events.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
12  All four of them seemed to be standing at the four corners of old age, which are decrepitude, decay, ruin, and sadness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II—GAVROCHE ON THE MARCH
13  Henceforth, there must be no sadness anywhere.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—JEAN VALJEAN STILL WEARS HIS ARM IN A SLING
14  She would have been sad, if sadness had been possible to her.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II—ANOTHER STEP BACKWARDS
15  Still further, he had seldom seen the young Musketeer; but every time he had seen him, he had remarked a deep sadness imprinted on his countenance.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 19 PLAN OF CAMPAIGN
Example Sentence: (82 in 6 pages)
16  The numerous rivers heart surface, threads a needle the line to suture sadly.
17  There's no hope to succeed; the secretary is helping the old manager back sadly.
18  If the king had hoped for peace, he was to be sadly disillusioned.
19  The spirit of fair play is sadly missing from the sport these days.
20  England's defeat in the third test match was sadly predictable.
21  There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when Alice had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again.
22  Deserted by her big sisters and her friends, the forlorn child sat sadly on the steps awaiting their return.
23  It is a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
24  It is desperately sad news and I am absolutely shattered to hear it.
25  You have found your sunlight, I actually still in alone sad.
26  When I am sad, I take refuge in remembering happier times.
27  Too sad so still is inferior to pretend don't care about anything.
28  Those days when we were together appear in my mind time after time,because they were so joyful, happy, blest, disappointing, sad and painful.
29  Your article brought back sad memories for me.
30  Sit not sad because that time a fitful aspect weareth; Patience is most bitter, yet most sweet the fruit it bearth.