doleful

How To Use doleful In A Sentence

• Somewhere out in the gloom coyotes chattered and yelped, and from far across the dusky valley others answered -- a doleful tenson. The River and I
• Instead, he wrote, played all the instruments, multi-tracked the doleful harmonies and produced this deceptively drifting solo project.
• He said: ‘We shall all miss her but it won't be a sad, doleful funeral.’
• Everyman wasn't as comprehensive and incisive as it might have been, but it was an intriguing, doleful documentary none the less.
• I told him he needed looking after and he looked so doleful and childlike I gave him a hug. The Sun
• Her onstage patter relied heavily on a certain expletive, and she undercut "Basket Case," the evening's most doleful offering, by dedicating it to "everyone out there who's sad. Music review: Sara Bareilles at 9:30 Club
• An elfin man of doleful mien, Mr. Wisdom was often described as the rightful heir to NYT > Home Page
• These voices do but echo to the voice of the Lord, who is now rendering a recompence to his enemies; and those that will not hear him speaking this terror shall hear them returning the alarms of it in doleful shrieks. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
• This track, from a rereleased 1981 live album, Standstill to Motion, is a doleful delight, its sonorous vocals conveying a sense of internal warfare. F&M playlist
• his mother looked at him dolefully when he told her he had joined the Army