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• The entire text is imbued with the sense of melancholy and hopelessness.From the entry imbue
• Her thoughts were dashed to melancholy.From the entry dash
• When I arrived within sight or hearing of the army, it again harrowed up my melancholy feelings that had subsided on my journey.From the entry harrow up
• There is a kind of melancholy to the final from a Messian perspective.2022 December 18, Samantha Lewis, “Argentina and France might be playing in the final but Qatar is the real winner of the FIFA World Cup”…. From the entry Messian
• The slow flutter of his vibrato gives a melancholy tinge to the proceedings.2014, Donna Soto-Morettini, Popular Singing and Style, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 221. From the entry give
• Naturally, this ailment could also refer to barythymia (depression or melancholy).2004, Julius Preuss, Biblical and Talmudic Medicine. From the entry barythymia
• Mummy Browns, from the crushings of Egyptian corpses, for the mortally ill and melancholy.2001, M[ichelle] R. Lovric, “The Language of Colour”, in Carnevale, London: Virago, →ISBN; republished London: Bloomsbury Publishing…. From the entry mummy brown
• So that's what's causing the ol' Scandinavian melancholy, Bergman, Munch and all that.2000 August 30, Toonhead, “English-speaking peoples - not grumpy”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet). From the entry melodramaticness
• Performing a curiously melancholy, undulating developpe, the dancers point their legs at each other like accusing fingers.1988 October 7, Laura Molzahn, “Between Heaven and the Gargabe Can”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2016. From the entry curiously
• A personalized, melancholy statement with authentic drama, and a vividly Armstrongian open-horn finish.1985, Gary Giddins, Rhythm-a-Ning: Jazz Tradition and Innovation in the '80s, page 51. From the entry Armstrongian
• Beside her, the India-rubber Man wound spaghetti on to a fork with an expression of deepest melancholy.1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 26. From the entry strongman
• Flores stood in a corner with a melancholy expression on his phiz.1952, Bernard Malamud, The Natural. From the entry phiz
• Its slow march tune was catchy, and its lyrics fitted Berlin's melancholy mood.1946 January 21, “Music: Berlin Hit”, in Time. From the entry slow march
• Won Chou merely relapsed into an attitude of studious melancholy, extremely trying to Mr.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry yellow man
• Autumn was considered the season most disposing to melancholy.2024, Robert Boland, Marcia L. Verduin, Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Text of Psychiatry. From the entry disposing
• There can be something absurd or even melancholy about the open-plan minipalaces some middle-class Britons consider essential for civilised living.2015 November 9, Andy Beckett, “The economics of scale: how housing became Britain’s biggest political issue”, in The Guardian. From the entry minipalace
• My companion knew the lessons better, but periodically when a melancholy feeling came over him, he let me do the teaching.2015 May 7, Ignacio M. García, Chicano While Mormon: Activism, War, and Keeping the Faith, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry golden contact
• Billington liked Rickman's 'voice, presence and air of ironic melancholy . . . what I miss is any internal tension'.2012 May 31, Maureen Paton, Alan Rickman: The Unauthorised Biography, Random House, →ISBN. From the entry Rickman
• Nakige are known for their sense of melancholy.2010, Brian Ashcroft, Shoko Ueda, Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool, page 154. From the entry nakige
• Scheinman’s solo on the tune was stately but not remote; she packed many shades of melancholy into a few understated phrases.2007 February 3, Nate Chinen, “Kindred Spirits in Groove”, in New York Times. From the entry ragalike
• A melancholy seems to descend in the aftercourse of success.2004, Steven Pressfield, The Virtues of War, New York: Doubleday, Book 4, Chapter 11, p. 110. From the entry aftercourse
• Taffy's cynophobia, expressed in spitting, growling, melancholy miauling, served to ease the awkwardness of greeting between unprepared hostess and uninvited guest.1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 337. From the entry cynophobia
• Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XVIII, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz…. From the entry dun
• Instead, my young vis-à-vis merely looked melancholy.1933, Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth, Penguin, published 2005, page 456. From the entry vis-à-vis
• And then, when you see the Bunters, you probably find that they are the most melancholy old folk with malignant diseases.1921, Ben Travers, “Westward Ho!”, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC, part I…. From the entry probably
• He got mopy and melancholy, and couldn't or wouldn't work.1917, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 11, in Anne's House of Dreams. From the entry mopey
• As she gazed, an unmirthful smile spread over her features, like sunshine that grows melancholy in some desolate spot.1903, Philip P. Wells, Bible Stories and Religious Classics. From the entry unmirthful
• With a blend of ethereal and neoclassical darkwave, they kicked off their set with a slow song about lost love, isolation and melancholy.2010, Stephen Pytak, The Wild Damned, Mazz Press, page 144. From the entry neoclassical darkwave
• When he got home from the parade, however, Professor Solanka was seized by melancholy, his usual secret sadness, which he sublimated into the public sphere.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 7. From the entry sublimate
• The saturnine line going from the rascetta through the hand to Saturn's mount, and there intersected by certain little lines, argues melancholy., New York, 2001, p.209. From the entry rascetta
• As she entered the projection theatre the soundtrack reverberated across the sculpture garden, a melancholy tocsin modulated by Talbert’s less and less coherent commentary.1970, JG Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition. From the entry tocsin
• O’Neill, who was tall, pale and melancholy, with long white hair asweep, very like the picture of composers of my music book-covers.1962, Austin Clarke, chapter 4, in Twice Round the Black Church, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, page 36. From the entry asweep
• At times we sense a heavy cloud of melancholy settling upon the spiirit, as a result of century-long suffering under the pressure of the Golus.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 391. From the entry galut
• Daily he became more atrabiliary, sinking into a state of melancholy that eliminates the joy of living into the sadness of living.1910, Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, number 61, Liverpool: The Society, →OCLC, page 18. From the entry atrabiliary
• He drew melancholy comparisons from Nature: men were compared to wandering clouds that dissolve into nothing, to wavering shadows, and shipwrecked beings, etc.1905, Alfred Biese, The Development of the Feeling for Nature In the Middle Ages and Modern Times, page 34. From the entry hexameron
• These were long ballads, often sung to the melancholy accompaniment of the one-stringed gusla, in which singers and listeners relived the great archetypal moments of Serbian history.2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 22. From the entry gusla
• But a profound melancholy had taken possession of Franz, the two hardly exchanged a word, the violin hung mute, chordless, full of dust, in its habitual place .2008, Reginald Menville, Douglas Menville, Ancient Hauntings, page 119. From the entry chordless
• The fourteenth of February in London was quite as black, and cold, and as wintersome as it was at Allington, and was, perhaps, somewhat more melancholy in its coldness.2008, Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington, page 321. From the entry wintersome

Meaning of melancholy

1. noun Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
2. noun Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
3. adjective Affected with great sadness or depression.

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Questions about melancholy in a sentence

How do you use melancholy in a sentence?

Melancholy is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Melancholy people don't talk much.”

What is a short sentence with melancholy?

“Melancholy people don't talk much.”

What does melancholy mean?

Melancholy means black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.