sad

Example Sentences

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"There are people who are very sad, powerless because they couldn't get their pets out," Kolster says.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2026

With sad brown eyes, he offered drab, wordy pronouncements in a gentle voice.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 22, 2026

The temptation is to read these two things ironically — sad comfort toy in one hand, authoritarian RoboCop in the other — and leave it at that.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 22, 2026

The next morning, when Bonnie returns sad and tired, we learn that the other girls played hide-and-seek and left Bonnie all on her own to use their tablets.

From Salon • Jun. 21, 2026

When she finished, she felt happy and sad at the same time, because the ending was warm and smiley but she didn’t want to say good-bye to the people in the book.

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr