Examples of 'melancholy' in a sentence
Meaning of "melancholy"
Melancholy (adjective): A feeling of pensive sadness or sorrow, often with no obvious cause. It is a state of mind that can be associated with reflective and thoughtful emotions
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- Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
- Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
- Affected with great sadness or depression.
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I get melancholy every now and then.
There is little of the melancholy element in her.
By the melancholy kind of cry which it utters.
Our life consists of melancholy and boredom.
Melancholy is just gonna pass right in front of us.
Observe that the melancholy of this occasion.
Melancholy settled down upon his spirit.
The best cure for melancholy is industry.
The melancholy moon is beautiful in its pallor.
I go from euphoria to melancholy at the blink of an eye.
And melancholy accompanied by the desire to be dead.
The tone is both melancholy and humorous.
And melancholy that no one can explain.
We settled down to the melancholy task of destruction.
Melancholy and solitude trigger literary motivations.
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Terence is very melancholy of his last semester.
Melancholy is viewed in the perspective of phenomenological sociology.
I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a warren.
Melancholy thieves give back the loot.
Says a streak of melancholy runs in our blood.
Melancholy is just going to pass right in front of us.
Listen to the melancholy strains of the triste.
Then she will get all melancholy.
Thoughts are melancholy and we let them pass.
Soon my son would well fully in melancholy.
He has been melancholy as you might have supposed.
Gringoire turned to him with a melancholy smile.
A flower of melancholy steams in the silver rain.
She will get sick with melancholy.
I used to get so melancholy this time of year.
But she is still haunted by a profound melancholy.
A kind of melancholy and sitting down under.
I let her steal into my melancholy heart.
He wrote melancholy poetry in addition to dry humour.
I think it matches the melancholy of the ending.
When it began to take in front of young melancholy.
There is this vast melancholy to the film.
Soon my son would dwell fully in melancholy.
I was feeling rather melancholy the whole day.
I have been through my own spells of melancholy.
At this moment a deep melancholy descended upon me.
They are both rather lonely and melancholy.
Next on the melancholy of the transformer interviewer.
But not how to cure his melancholy.
I get into these melancholy romantic moods.
And also some died from melancholy.
I loved the melancholy quality of his pieces.
It went so well with the melancholy mood.
And the melancholy time of not knowing.
Yet still within its melancholy fissures.
