How To Use Sordidness In A Sentence

He led a strange torpid life in the week, doing nothing in the kitchen of the rectory, in a state of great sordidness. TESTIMONIES
The result is a strange display of exhilarating liberation paired with unsettling sordidness.
The European traveller from the States, who is not a Croesus, speedily finds himself reduced to a chronic state of self-conscious sordidness by the hordes of cringing robbers who clutter his steps from dawn till dark, and deplete his pocket-book in a way that puts compound interest to the blush. THE DESCENT
He had 'teached' for twenty years, he said, but in spite of this there was about him something indescribably rural, something of the sod -- not the dignity, the sturdiness of it, but rather of the pettiness, the sordidness of it. The Spinner's Book of Fiction
I have come down to the bare bed-rock of sordidness -- I must have money -- _money! The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow

Young men, while willing to concede the chaining sordidness of marriage, were hesitant about abandoning the organizations which they hoped would give them a career.
He gazed across the monstrous sordidness of soul to a chromo on the wall. Chapter 3
The European traveller from the States, who is not a Croesus, speedily finds himself reduced to a chronic state of self-conscious sordidness by the hordes of cringing robbers who clutter his steps from dawn till dark, and deplete his pocket-book in a way that puts compound interest to the blush. THE DESCENT
And without--the frontier warfare; the yearning of a boy, cast ashore upon a desert of newness and ugliness and sordidness, for all that is chastened and old, and noble with traditions.