dolefully

How To Use dolefully In A Sentence

• Faint music came from another house beyond the trees; a carriage clopped past the distant gates; overhead a nightbird moaned dolefully; I could hear my own knees creaking as I crouched there, scratching the newly-healed bullet-wound in my backside and wondering what the deuce was wrong. Isabelle
• The manager dolefully explained the problems of running a three - star hotel in a five-star building on a two-star budget.
• O ye Napeas and Dryads! which do wontedly inhabit the thickets and groves, so may the nimble and lascivious satyrs, by whom (although in vain) you are beloved, never have power to interrupt your sweet rest, as you shall assist me to lament my disasters, or at least attend them, whilst I dolefully breathe them. The Third Book. XI. Which Treats of the Strange Adventures That Happened to the Knight of the Mancha in Sierra Morena; and of the Penance He Did There, in Imitation of Beltenebros
• his mother looked at him dolefully when he told her he had joined the Army
• Why don't you eat?" he demanded, as Martin dipped dolefully into the cold, half-cooked oatmeal mush. Chapter 5
• “All the toilets and cesspools are flooded, of course,” Paul noted dolefully, “and the amenities of life are impossible to preserve.” A Covert Affair
• Why don't you eat?" he demanded, as Martin dipped dolefully into the cold, half-cooked oatmeal mush. Chapter 5
• All this time the uncle was dolefully blowing his clarionet in the corner, sometimes taking it an inch or so from his mouth for a moment while he stopped to gaze at them, with a vague impression that somebody had said something. Little Dorrit