SORROW in a Sentence

Learn SORROW from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
240 example sentences for SORROW, such as:
1. Every heart has its own sorrow.
2. Two in distress makes sorrow less.
3. Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow.
4. The director expresses his sorrow in his film.
5. They that marry in green, their sorrow is soon seen.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SORROW
sorrow
 n.  the state of being sad
 v.  feel grief
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
2  Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
3  They made many signs which I did not comprehend, but I saw that her presence diffused gladness through the cottage, dispelling their sorrow as the sun dissipates the morning mists.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
4  I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
5  Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Henry, but they soothe my heart, overflowing with the anguish which his remembrance creates.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
6  His fine and lovely eyes were now lighted up with indignation, now subdued to downcast sorrow and quenched in infinite wretchedness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
7  It may serve, let us hope, to symbolise some sweet moral blossom that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In I. THE PRISON DOOR
8  Not seldom she would laugh anew, and louder than before, like a thing incapable and unintelligent of human sorrow.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In VI. PEARL
9  If thou hadst a sorrow of thine own, the brook might tell thee of it," answered her mother, "even as it is telling me of mine.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
10  And, as if the gloom of the earth and sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
11  Old Roger Chillingworth followed, as one intimately connected with the drama of guilt and sorrow in which they had all been actors, and well entitled, therefore to be present at its closing scene.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
12  Here had been her sin; here, her sorrow; and here was yet to be her penitence.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXIV. CONCLUSION
13  They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
14  But in sorrow she must be equally carried away by her fancy, and as far beyond consolation as in pleasure she was beyond alloy.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
15  Colonel Brandon again repeated his sorrow at being the cause of disappointing the party; but at the same time declared it to be unavoidable.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
Example Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  Joy often comes after sorrow, like morning after night.
2  Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
3  Smiling, not because happiness too long, is too long time forgot to sorrow.
4  Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
5  Two in distress makes sorrow less.
6  Whether happiness and sorrow in life would finally become memories.
7  Who swims in sin shall sink in sorrow.
8  I searched in Google with "busy", "bee", "time", "sorrow" and luckily got it.
9  Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
10  We would do anything to ease your sorrow if we only could.
11  The director expresses his sorrow in his film.
12  Every heart has its own sorrow.
13  There will be no regret and sorrow if you fight with all your strength.
14  They that marry in green, their sorrow is soon seen.
15  Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.