Doleful example sentences
Related (5): melancholy, sorrowful, mournful, pensive, gloomy.
"Doleful" Example Sentences
Common Phrases
- His doleful eyes stared back at me, filled with sadness.
- She let out a doleful sigh and turned away.
- The dog howled dolefully in the distance.
- The mourners wore solemn, doleful expressions.
- The prisoner gave a doleful cry from his lonely cell.
- A doleful choir of crickets sang through the open window.
- The wind carried a doleful moan through the abandoned house.
- They lifted their voices in doleful lamentation for the dead.
- The abandoned carnival rides sat in doleful silence.
- The doleful tones of the organ filled the cathedral.
- His doleful, heartrending words moved the audience to tears.
- She played the doleful tune on her violin.
- The funeral march had a slow, doleful pace.
- The doleful howl of the siren echoed through the rainy night.
- The doleful sound of a weeping child carried on the breeze.
- The rain fell in a doleful patter against the windows.
- They hung their heads in doleful silence as the bad news was relayed.
- The doleful owl's haunting call echoed through the woods.
- The doleful notes of the trumpet brought a melancholy air to the music.
- She sat quietly, dolefully contemplating her dismal future.
- The doleful song of the lovelorn poet stirred feelings of despair.
- The drifter strummed a doleful tune on his battered guitar.
- The haunting, doleful melody lingered in her memory for years.
- The doleful pictures hanging on the walls seemed to reflect her mood.
- The doleful strains of "Amazing Grace" drifted through the cemetery.
- The doleful wails of the widow filled the room.
- He delivered his doleful report in an emotionless monotone.
- The doleful melody of bagpipes filled the cold Highland air.
- A doleful dirge played in the background as the coffin was lowered.
- The doleful sound of the harmonica brought tears to her eyes.
- The old, doleful barn leaned sadly on its crumbling foundation.
- The doleful miners trudged home in weary silence.
- The wounded soldier's doleful letter brought tears to his mother's eyes.
- The island landscape seemed dolefully bleak and barren.
- The doleful music and dark lyrics reflected his mood perfectly.
- The doleful sound of a ghostly wail drifted through the abandoned asylum.
- The forlorn hippies sat around the campfire strumming doleful tunes.
- The doleful echo of her cry reverberated throughout the forest.
- The doleful jack-o'-lanterns leered silently from their porches.
- The doleful silence of the lost child filled the darkness.
- The songbird's normally cheerful song took on a doleful tone.
- She gazed dolefully out at the stormy sea.
- The doleful cry of the loon broke the stillness of the night.
- The doleful child sat apart from the rest, isolated in her grief.
- The doleful music depressed and demoralized the troops.
- The spotlights shone on the doleful stages of the prisoners of war.
- The doleful bleating of lost lambs filled the air.
- The doleful faces of the old miners told a story of hardship and loss.
- Ghostly doleful voices seemed to issue from the abandoned church ruins.
- The doleful music made her think of lost loves and wasted years.
- The doleful strains of a lone trumpet drifted across the barren plain.
- The sleigh bells sounded strangely doleful on that cold winter's night.
- The doleful notes of the trumpet faded away into silence.
- The pensioners sat huddled together on the park bench, dolefully musing on their lost youth.
- The doleful howl of the large dog could be heard across the valley.
- The poet's doleful verses reflected his despair and hopelessness.
- The doleful melody of the violin conjured up images of grief and loss.
- The wind carried the doleful cry of the lost souls with it.
- The doleful singer belted out melancholy folk songs into the night.
- The doleful wail of the steam whistle seemed oddly fitting on such a grim, grey day.