Sentence example with the word 'doleful'

doleful

affecting, cast down, disconsolate, down-in-the-mouth, gloomy, harrowing, melancholy, piteous, rueful, tearful

Definition adj. filled with or evoking sadness

Last update: March 7, 2017


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Porcupine fish were hiding underneath small outcrops, their huge, doleful eyes peering out warily at the passing divers.   [adjective]

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Because Jane has not received any news of her missing son, she has been doleful to the point of not being able to eat or sleep.   [adjective]

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'If that doleful day should come, while Duncan Macwheeble had a boddle it should be Miss Rose's.   [adjective]

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Death rock me asleep, abridge my doleful days, and lay my head in fury's lap--Have we not Hiren here.   [adjective]

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Everywhere are grim, doleful evidences of a glory that is past and a population that is dead or moved away.   [adjective]

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Taking Stephen on one side he had the customary doleful ditty to tell.   [adjective]

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Hobbie instantly whistled on his hounds, which were roving about the ruins of their old habitation, and filling the air with their doleful howls.   [adjective]

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For Boris, Julie played most doleful nocturnes on her harp.   [adjective]

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What a doleful night.   [adjective]

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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.   [adjective]

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Yet how, on this dark and doleful evening, could you so suddenly rise on my lone hearth.   [adjective]

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