DOLEFUL in a Sentence
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34 example sentences for DOLEFUL, such as:
1. She quickly doled out the food.
2. There was one who raised a doleful cry.
3. She lost her job and had to claim dole.
4. If he does go, the change will be doleful.
5. He has been very silent and doleful of late.
2. There was one who raised a doleful cry.
3. She lost her job and had to claim dole.
4. If he does go, the change will be doleful.
5. He has been very silent and doleful of late.
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Meanings and Examples of DOLEFUL
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doleful
a. sorrowful; filled with or expressing grief; mournful
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 The tunes were either very lively or very doleful, and he sang words to some of them.
2 There was one who raised a doleful cry.
3 The men's faces grew doleful from the interpreting of omens.
4 The expression of her face was an odd mixture of shrewdness and cunning, over which was oddly drawn, like a kind of veil, an expression of the most doleful gravity and solemnity.
5 So it was not very pleasant when she opened the door of her room, to see Martha standing waiting for her with a doleful face.
6 The clock of the Invalides struck a quarter to twelve; the west wind bore on its moistened gusts the doleful vibration of the three strokes.
7 She passed into another ballad, this time a really doleful one.
8 If he does go, the change will be doleful.
9 We had a doleful parting, and when I took my place by Magwitch's side, I felt that that was my place henceforth while he lived.
10 I picture my small self in the dimly-lighted rooms, sitting with my head upon my hand, listening to the doleful performance of Mr. Mell, and conning tomorrow's lessons.
11 He has been very silent and doleful of late.
12 One sent forth the praises of Athelstane in a doleful panegyric; another, in a Saxon genealogical poem, rehearsed the uncouth and harsh names of his noble ancestry.
13 At the same time, Thenardier perceived in the direction of the Bastille a wan whiteness lighting up the edge of the sky in doleful wise.
14 If the philosopher succeeds in fixing, for a moment, for purposes of observation, this language which is incessantly evaporating, he falls into doleful and useful meditation.
15 For Boris, Julie played most doleful nocturnes on her harp.
Example Sentence:
1 He found the doleful lamentations of the bereaved family emotionally disturbing and he left as quickly as he could.
2 The gale still rising, seemed to my ear to muffle a mournful under-sound; whether in the house or abroad I could not at first tell, but it recurred, doubtful yet doleful at every lull; at last I made out it must be some dog howling at a distance.
3 Billions of dollars of dodgy loans - doled out by banks to subprime borrowers and then resold numerous times on international debt markets - began to unravel and default.
4 She quickly doled out the food.
5 Melrose said his supply went dry Saturday after doling out 10 times the normal number of flu shots to victims of the coughing—sneezing-head-feverish epidemic sweeping the nation.
6 She lost her job and had to claim dole.
7 The Red Cross flew to the area of the earthquake,ready to dole out supplies of food,water and medicine.
8 The poor family received the fixed dole every month.