How To Use Mournfully In A Sentence
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One stray feather sat mournfully closer to the door.
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Once in the evening, after we had been picnicking, he phoned me at home and said mournfully, I am feeling low.
Henry’s Demons
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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.
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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
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Instead of mournfully reflecting on their mined lives, they ‘behaved as if they were in a schoolroom.’
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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.
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I liked it not more than he did that his country hounds had for two days bayed mournfully.
Perquampi
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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
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There is a dove who occasionally sits and coos mournfully on the roof, but I don't think he's fixed up.
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They pursed their lips, tut-tutted at appropriate times, murmured mournfully and commiserated gently.
FINAL RESORT
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Were they all dead, spring would in vain renew her promise -- wearisome would be the long, long, interminable summer-days -- the fruits of autumn would taste fushionless -- and the winter's ingle blink mournfully round the hearth.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 406, December 26, 1829
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The mournfully monotonous chirping of the grasshoppers, the call of the landrail, and the cry of the quail did not destroy the stillness of the night, but, on the contrary, gave it an added monotony.
The Witch, and other stories
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The owl fled to the wild, uninhabited places, and now mournfully cries out for her home.
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Menacing clouds of reverberating discord give way to toy piano chimes synchronized with chirping melodica, booming bass drum, and mournfully wheezing harmonium, all oddly juxtaposed with Steinke's warm guitar melodies.
Bill Bush: Distinct of a Decade and Definitive of an Era: This Artweek.LA (June 27-July 3)
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The driver said mournfully, `For some reason, signor, I doubt whether you're a friend to the Frasconis.
A SEASON IN HELL
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The dog looked mournfully after its owner.
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His signature sound — pungent, almost mournfully low and reverberant — is one of the most readily identifiable in jazz today.
With a Country Twang
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Keyboards burble mournfully, walking basslines practically sprint, drums sizzle and snap like Rice Krispies left out in the rain, and the divine Ms. Em slingshots situationist slogans straight at our heads.
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Puir clarty bugger, " Ian said, shaking his head mournfully.
Drums of Autumn
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Pine needles falling on an empty lawn chair, as you watch mournfully from the window. veggieburger
The Last McCain Campaign Rally - Swampland - TIME.com
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Deanne Sokolin creates abstract, mournfully poetic black-and-white images of wrapped objects.
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Frith piles up layers of sharp, melodic guitars, woozy mellotrons or mournfully folky violins, with results that range from the infectiously melodic to the fearsomely dense.
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dingle," gazing mournfully out into the smother of snowflakes.
The Rainy Day Railroad War
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‘I had a chow and a cat but they both passed,’ he mournfully reveals.
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I kicked the spinifex growing through the bitumen and gazed mournfully at the old projectors.
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He stared mournfully at the bright strip which appeared to float in the cold air over the small table.
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He stood mournfully at the gate waving bye bye.
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On seeing me, she wailed mournfully with a mixture of imploration to get her down and shame at her undignified predicament.
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The exchanges were dynamic and carefree with both sets of defences mournfully looking on as they were outgunned and outmanoeuvred.
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It must be again said that we have not to think of "the pleasant place of all festivity," but of a few huts among the sand-banks, inhabited by Roman provincials, who mournfully recall their charred and ruined habitations by the Brenta and the Piave.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04
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It stood near the window; its thick trunk, barkless, with a rotten heart, prevented the light from entering the room; the bent, black branches, devoid of leaves, stretched themselves mournfully and helplessly in the air, and shaking to and fro, they creaked softly, plaintively.
The Man Who Was Afraid
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The gums were full of budgies, skawking and whistling their parodies of songbirds; finches wheeled from branch to branch; two sulphur-crested cockatoos sat with their heads to one side watching her progress with twinkling eyes; willy-wagtails fossicked in the dirt for ants, their absurd rumps bobbing; crows carked eternally and mournfully.
The Thorn Birds
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Thus thought Maria — These are the ravages over which humanity must ever mournfully ponder, with a degree of anguish not excited by crumbling marble, or cankering brass, unfaithful to the trust of monumental fame.
Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
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`Is'sa lotta money, "he had sighed mournfully when adding up the costs.
FINAL RESORT
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He stared mournfully at the bright strip which appeared to float in the cold air over the small table.
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I washed that down with soda water and indulged in a slice of wholegrain bread with a thin slice of cheese and a smidgeon of honey and munched mournfully on an apple.
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the young man stared into his glass mournfully
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The curtain descended slowly amidst sympathetic sobs and silence -- the musicians themselves, deeply moved, no doubt, with the sorrows of the scene, mournfully resumed their fiddles, and struck up "ti _ti_ tum _tiddle_ un _ti_ tum
Records of a Girlhood
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The driver said mournfully, `For some reason, signor, I doubt whether you're a friend to the Frasconis.
A SEASON IN HELL
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They mournfully gazed at the empty floor that was earlier that day full of brown eggs speckled with grey spots.
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We made a triangle with our eyes: me looking mournfully at Leo, Leo scrutinising the man in the denim jacket, the man watching me, leaning on a concrete bollard and chewing gum.
That Saturday
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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
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The church bell was tolling mournfully as the carriage entered the cemetery gate.
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It is well known that if you seize a deer by this "holt" the skin will slip off like the peel from a banana -- This reprehensible practice was carried so far that the traveler is now hourly pained by the sight of peeled-tail deer mournfully sneaking about the wood.
In the Wilderness
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North is the farthest remove from home, a place where Frankenstein's monster wanders mournfully, distant from all the known safe world.
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But the mother looked mournfully upon him, and wished he had not come, and could not believe that a life which commenced so untowardly would ever be anything better than a burden to her, and a misfortune and misery to himself.
Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters
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And after so many years lurking mournfully in the shadows, who could deny Ford the chance to steal some of Daddy's limelight?
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This terrible malediction no longer lets me be the tall dark handsome man I know I am,’ he continued mournfully.
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To mourn is to (1) feel or express grief or sorrow; (2) to show the customarysigns of grief for a death, to wear mourning clothes; (3) to murmur mournfully; (1) to feel or express grief or sorrow for.
Making a place in the church for a lamentation
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We will say mournfully, in the presence of Heaven and Earth, -- that we stand speechless, stupent, and know not what to say!
Past and Present
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The turf was dry, the air was still, and although the woods were very silent, and looked mournfully bare, the grass drew nearer to the roots of the trees, and the sunshine filled them with streaks of gold, blending lovelily with the bright green of the moss that patched the older stems.
Thomas Wingfold, Curate
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Nothing supports this claim as convincingly as the meditative ‘The Music Plays Itself,’ where limpid guitars reverberate mournfully over railroad noise and faded electronic scratch.
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The ship's foghorn sounded mournfully into the mist.
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Menacing clouds of reverberating discord give way to toy piano chimes synchronized with chirping melodica, booming bass drum, and mournfully wheezing harmonium, all oddly juxtaposed with Steinke's warm guitar melodies.
Bill Bush: Distinct of a Decade and Definitive of an Era: This Artweek.LA (June 27-July 3)