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How to use sad in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective, verb, interjection

Sad means feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful. Example: “She gets sad when he's away.”

Examples of sad by meaning

adjectiveFeeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.

  • She gets sad when he's away.

adjectiveAppearing sorrowful.

  • The puppy had a sad little face.
  • We need a sad man.2010 February, Eric Rentschler, Itoh's Ghost, iUniverse, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 54

adjectiveCausing sorrow; lamentable.

  • It's a sad fact that most rapes go unreported.
  • It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.1963, Margery Allingham, “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 249

adjectivePoor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.

  • That's the saddest-looking pickup truck I've ever seen.
  • Musk is betting that lonely users will trade their cash (and last shreds of their connection to human life) for a bot that is explicitly designed to flirt with sad men, as the saddest man on Earth spearheaded it.2025 July 16, Luis Prada, “Elon Musk’s Grok AI Now Includes a Pornographic Waifu Chatbot”, in Vice

adjectiveUnfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.

  • I can't believe you use drugs; you're so sad!
  • You’d have to be really sad to wear a shirt like that.

More sentences with sad

  • It is a sad fact that 43% of marriages are now divorced.From the entry divorced
  • Aww, that's so sad: he hasn't yet learned to ride a bike.From the entry aww
  • Sad to say, I can’t remember anything else about him. Only that voice, whispering in my ear.From the entry sad to say
  • The playgoing public will be sad to learn of the theatre's impending closure.From the entry playgoing
  • Since her pet passed away, she has been moping around the house, feeling lonely and sad.From the entry mope around
  • Since her pet passed away, she has been moping about the house, feeling lonely and sad.From the entry mope about
  • That sad movie always makes me cry.From the entry cry
  • I mentioned that I was feeling sad, so she mailed me a box of chocolates. She gets me.From the entry get
  • Rob comforted Aaron because he was lost and very sad.From the entry comfort
  • The sad young girl left with a tired shuffle.From the entry shuffle
  • The sad eyes of the orphan tugged at my heartstrings.From the entry heartstrings
  • It was sad to put our beloved spaniel to sleep, but it was better than letting him suffer.From the entry put to sleep
  • You can always come to me when you're feeling sad.From the entry come to
  • I felt sad that he had left, but I had to snap out of it and get on with my life.From the entry snap out of
  • Sam is sad that people don't visit him at home on Shabbos because he lives outside the eruv.From the entry eruv
  • Man I just got ammo'd, so I feel sad.From the entry ammo'd
  • When I think back on those times we shared together, I can't help but feel a little sad.From the entry think back
  • Your awful "song" is making my ears sad.From the entry make someone's ears sad
  • It was an old love song playing on the radio, full of sentiment and sappinesss. It made me feel alone and sad.From the entry sappiness
  • When you think about all she's done for the sport, it's kind of sad, but she's completely lost it over the past few years.From the entry lose it
  • And if you're sad about someone, something that was fun once is now really painful.2024 January 11, 9:49 from the start, in Does Kristen Stewart Know Her Lines From Her Most Famous Movies?, spoken by Kristen Stewart. From the entry lol
  • A dusty bottle of multipurpose cleaning spray, blue roll, a sad grey J-cloth, furniture polish.2023, Alice Slater, Death of a Bookseller. From the entry blue roll
  • To see this in eagleland is amusing and sad in same time.2022 August 5, Otakubouzu, Twitter, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2022. From the entry Eagleland
  • It can be tinged with tragedy or just inexplicably sad in its ordinariness.2022 November 1, Jake Pitre, “The Eerie Comfort of Liminal Spaces”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The…. From the entry liminal space
  • What followed was a sad attempt by Dunkin’ to “outtweet” the First Lady, which obviously failed.2022 December 2, Katie McCall, “What You Can Learn from Wendy’s Social Media Strategy”, in Rival IQ. From the entry outtweet
  • “Sad to see a friendship end this way but it is what it is.2021 August 26, Ryan Leston, “xQc mocks Pokimane for not being the “bigger person” amid Twitch drama”, in NME. From the entry sadge
  • Knowing that I have no chance with them makes me really sad.2020, anonymous, quoted in Kirsti Sippel, "'Tuhoutukoot naiset maailmani mukana': Incel paineen varaventtiilinä, ideologiana ja…. From the entry suifuel
  • On my seeing my sad face the bakester gave me one more piece to savour.2020, Janarthanan Ilangovan, “A Sweet Tooth”, in Swosti Samarpita Sahoo, Ethereal Musing, Cuttack, Odisha: Subharambh Publication House…. From the entry bakester
  • First felt both happy and sad at the sight of the old stegosaurus.2017, Seth Chambers, Her Rule Would Always Last, →ISBN, page 44. From the entry stego
  • Following the news over the past weeks and months was making me sad.2017 September 5, Glenn Harlan Reynolds, “Hurricane Harvey revealed the awesome power of real America”, in USA Today. From the entry at swords' points
  • Alternate iterations of Pepe, including sad, smug and angry Pepes, followed.2016 October 11, Jessica Roy, “How 'Pepe the Frog' went from harmless to hate symbol”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los…. From the entry Pepe

Meaning of sad

  1. adjective Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
  2. adjective Appearing sorrowful.
  3. adjective Causing sorrow; lamentable.

Full definition of sad

Questions about sad in a sentence

How do you use sad in a sentence?
Sad is used as an adjective, verb and interjection. For example: “She gets sad when he's away.”
What is a short sentence with sad?
“We need a sad man.”
What does sad mean?
Sad means feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sad (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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