mournfully

How To Use mournfully In A Sentence

• One stray feather sat mournfully closer to the door.
• Once in the evening, after we had been picnicking, he phoned me at home and said mournfully, I am feeling low. Henry’s Demons
• Weary muscles complain mournfully, yet the heart's spirit overcomes sensations of pain, knowing that limberness shall soon follow a quick morning warm-up and stretch.
• He gazed earnestly and mournfully upon them, and when he entered his prison, again enquired concerning them, but the same inflexible silence was preserved on the subject. The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne: A Highland Story
• Instead of mournfully reflecting on their mined lives, they ‘behaved as if they were in a schoolroom.’
• In a country with almost no vehicles on its roads, one of the commonest sights is a group of soldiers from the Korean People's Army, peering mournfully into the innards of a broken-down transport.
• I liked it not more than he did that his country hounds had for two days bayed mournfully. Perquampi
• St. Gertrude was once saying the Divine Office with the other virgins of her monastery, and was striving to pronounce every word attentively, but since she was often distracted through human infirmity, she said mournfully to herself, "And what fruit can be derived from this endeavour, which is combined with so much inconstancy? Spiritual Works of Louis of Blois
• There is a dove who occasionally sits and coos mournfully on the roof, but I don't think he's fixed up.
• They pursed their lips, tut-tutted at appropriate times, murmured mournfully and commiserated gently. FINAL RESORT