mournful

How To Use mournful In A Sentence

• Profoundly discouraged, we ride on after this in mournful silence. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
• There is jaunty fairground music playing but one of the rabbits looks a bit mournful. The Sun
• Their conjugal affection still is ty'd,And still the mournful race is multiply'd:They bill, they tread; Alcyone compress'd,Sev'n days sits brooding on her floating nest:A wintry queen: her sire at length is kind,Calms ev'ry storm, and hushes ev'ry wind;Prepares his empire for his daughter's ease,And for his hatching nephews smooths the seas. Mystery bird: Black-capped kingfisher, Halcyon pileata
• The silence was broken only by the splash of an alligator leaping on some prey far below, and the mournful pipe of some jungle bird across the rivers.
• The villagers all line the dock, tears welling in their respective eyes, waving a mournful farewell to the departing sailors.
• Through the blown scud the clamour of the bell came mournfully to us over the waves; in the blown drifts of rain we saw the bawley labouring to us. Movie Night
• Hugh in mournful discourse with Edgar upon the nonappearance of Dr. Orkborne. Camilla
• It was a mournful pair that hired a boat to take them to Saltash and acquaint the Lee family of the tragedy.
• I'm not sure what melancholy instrument it is that carries this ponderous, mournful dirge.
• It is a cautionary tale with wry observations about our decadent society entwined around a mournful melody. Times, Sunday Times