noun
definition
Unhappiness, woe
definition
(usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
example
Parting is such sweet sorrow.
verb
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To feel or express grief.
definition
To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.
Examples of sorrow in a Sentence
His fury, pain, and sorrow choked her.
Anger and sorrow collided within her.
She responded, her sorrow and confusion feeding her need.
She listened, struck by the sorrow in his voice.
Sorrow, then fury filled her.
As she stepped away from the magic of the Henge, sorrow for those women who came before her pulled her from the powerful high.
Hate and sorrow spun through him as he gazed up at his father's killer.
Her throat tightened in unshed tears of sorrow and anger.
Sorrow is sent by Him, not by men.
Taran waited on edge, fury and sorrow fresh within him.
Why does the dear Father in heaven think it best for us to have very great sorrow sometimes?
This is all you'll give me? she asked, torn between fury and sorrow at the impossible challenge.
His anger faltered, and sorrow filled his face.
Magic shot through him, burning like fire. Kris gasped. Another blast, and he fell to the ground. His body roiled with the demon magic, convulsing until the blow faded. He felt himself hauled up by his neck and thrust onto the ground again. His vision blurry, Kris could only see Hannah's beautiful blond hair. Sorrow replaced anger, and he reached out, touching the soft wheat curls.
Anger and sorrow gave him strength.
She gazed around Ashley's room, her fear and sorrow so deep, they hurt.
Gratitude for his achievements and sorrow for his death found expression in universal mourning wherein king and peasant equally joined.
After his sorrow he only this year quite recovered his spirits.
Her look of soul-deep sorrow touched him, and he recalled what he felt as a youth to find his father and mother dead and his family hunted and forced out of their own home.
Jenn stepped into the city, at once aware of the sorrow the place held.
He watched, sorrow and then fury filling him.
Sorrow, desire, fear, desperation – all spun and solidified into an ache unlike anything she'd ever experienced.
But pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.
Disbelief and sorrow crossed her face as she began to understand her options.
The etchings of age, pain, and sorrow were upon his brow and cheeks.
He passed six quiet years in the convent, but his poems written during that period are expressive of burning indignation against the corruptions of the church and profoundest sorrow for the calamities of his country.
Sorrow and rage pierced him to the core.
Sheer grief and shame, and, it is said, sorrow for the failure in war of his favourite, Oliver Sinclair, were the apparent causes of his death.
He had never seen nor heard of sorrow or sickness or poverty.
The second earliest dated letter expressed sorrow that the wedding could not take place in Boston and a gift was being shipped separately.
Her teal gaze was filled with sorrow rather than hope, but her vulnerability hooked him nonetheless.
The only child of the marriage, a little grand-duchess, died on the 12th of May 1808; and their common sorrow drew husband and wife closer together.
I will spend all my life, and give all that I have, to lessen the distress and sorrow with which this world seems filled.
There are such words as joy and sorrow, but they are only the burden of a psalm, sung with a nasal twang, while we believe in the ordinary and mean.
Darian met her gaze, his features resolved yet tinged with the same sorrow she felt.
In men Rostov could not bear to see the expression of a higher spiritual life (that was why he did not like Prince Andrew) and he referred to it contemptuously as philosophy and dreaminess, but in Princess Mary that very sorrow which revealed the depth of a whole spiritual world foreign to him was an irresistible attraction.
The steady progress of the heretical movement in spite of all opposition was a cause of deep sorrow to Polycarp, so that in the last years of his life the words were constantly on his lips, "Oh good God, to what times hast thou spared me, that I must suffer such things!"
Don't imagine that sorrow is the work of men.
Neither sorrow nor regret followed my passionate outburst.
It is natural for sorrow to cry to the newly dead "Come back!"
She still felt anger and sorrow.
He was kindly dismissed by the pope not long after, with a letter recommending him to the protection of the bishops of Tours and Angers, and another pronouncing anathema on all who should do him any injury or call him a heretic. He returned home, overwhelmed with shame and bowed down with sorrow for having a second time been guilty of a great impiety.
She was overcome by sweet sorrow and tears were already rising in her eyes; then she suddenly asked herself to whom she was saying this.
This led to a quarrel with his son, who with quite unnecessary harshness, partly due to his minister the Marquis d'Ormea, arrested his father and confined him at Rivoli and later at Moncalieri; there Victor, overwhelmed with sorrow, died on the 31st of October 1732.
The queen's private life during the decade 1870-80 was one of quiet, broken only by one great sorrow when the Princess Alice died in 1878.
The mass that follows, characterized by all the outward signs of sorrow proper to Passion Week, is in striking contrast with the joyous triumph of the procession.
This was my first great sorrow--my first personal experience with death.
How much sorrow it causes in the world, said the countess.
He held her for a long moment, surprised to find her sorrow echoed in his breast at knowing she might choose to leave.
He felt her frustration, sorrow, and fear.