Sample Sentences for
melancholy
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    His heart was heavy, and he had been melancholy since the previous night.  (source)
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    Line for line, voices followed in simple harmony until the hymn ended in a melancholy murmur.  (source)
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    A queenless colony is a pitiful and melancholy community;  (source)
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    For Tuck's head tilted to one side, his eyes went soft, and the gentlest smile in the world displaced the melancholy creases of his cheeks.  (source)
    melancholy = sad
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    How she listened at first to the sonorous lamentations of its romantic melancholies reechoing through the world and eternity!†  (source)
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    How did such noble sadness square with the rest of Holger's behavior, Hans Castorp wondered, with his unimaginative childish pranks and silly practical jokes, with that unmelancholy slap, for example, to which the prosecutor had been subjected?†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmelancholy means not and reverses the meaning of melancholy. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Diddlediddle dumdum Diddlediddle... —Sad to lose the old friends, Mrs Breen's womaneyes said melancholily.†  (source)
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    a rather melancholy voice  (source)
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    How melancholies I am!†  (source)
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    Don't let the torrent of melancholy and drear philosophy drown our world.  (source)
    melancholy = sad thoughts
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    We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land.  (source)
    melancholy = sad
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    Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern;  (source)
    melancholy = sad or depressing
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    all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit.  (source)
    melancholy = sadness
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