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How to use dolorous in a sentence

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The economy has nosedived since he took power in April, though he has hardly begun the dolorous restructuring he promised.
Far from being dour and dolorous, one of the clearest fruits of grace is a childlike joy.
Through an interpreter this week, a dolorous Dolores explained that it hadn't taken her long to realize she'd been duped.
And now here she is, with her dark and dolorous music, which has been called many things.
Guerra's not afraid to actually play the guitar conventionally either, and his dolorous, hesitant chording is heard to beautiful effect on the gorgeous closing track.
He is amusing and sarcastic, lonely and dolorous, overflowing with energy, a skillful manipulator, a scandalous virtuoso of the show business machine, but in no way mediocre.
As World War II came to a close, the gaunt and dolorous child was liberated at yet another death camp, Buchenwald.
A century later, a Dr Hamilton found the remedy to cure Emperor Farrukhsiyar from a dolorous disorder and obtained for his people a little bit more of land and more exorbitant privileges.
And so the moost party of the castel that was falle doune thorugh that dolorous stroke laye vpon Pellam and balyn thre dayes.
Then she that saw him lying unsleek, unshorn, Gaunt as it were the skeleton of himself, Uttered a little tender dolorous cry.
Remarkable frescoes of the time around 1440 showing the dolorous passion of the Lord, the legend of St. Peter, the Wise and Foolish Virgins and the Last Judgment can be found in the Protestant Parish Church.
From this prison here of horror, whence I every hour tend nearer and nearer to destruction, I send you... the assurance of my dolorous and unhappy service.
The name of the Dolorous Guard is changed to the Joyous Guard and becomes Lancelot's home.
In the story of Sir Balin, the Dolorous Stroke turns Listeneise into the Wasteland.
Examples from Classical Literature
He, with his eyes fixed on the embers, had sunk back into the dolorous past.
He stood stupefied, and so dolorous a spectacle that she could not but laugh.
At this Pierre could not refrain from a dolorous and vivacious interruption.
Not at all, but I find dolorous passages in this choral, as in all the Calvinist hymns.
Things were as bad as they could be, and every man had a tale of dolour to pitch, but no one looked dolorous.
The most dolorous of all moral tragedies knit and unknit the most often in silence.
She regarded him with her smoky eyes, in which he now saw that dolent, almost dolorous expression which had captivated him.
There were sighs of comprehension, gasps of dolorous interest.
Had it at Martell's with my dolorous, misanthropic relative.
The Burgundy from the public house at the corner warmed her heart, and she forgot that she ought to preserve a dolorous countenance.
The poor flighty gentleman looked quite dolorous, at the very recollection of the staking.
He could see, foreshortened, the tear-stained, dolorous face of the woman stretched out, and with her head thrown over the back of the seat.
His excuses were cut short by Tom Platt launching into a most dolorous tune, like unto the moaning of winds and the creaking of masts.
This admission, so sincere and so dolorous to make, penetrated me.
Then she gazed out before her, with a feeling of dolorous surprise.
At last, he placed it in his pocket and faced the dolorous high-jacker.
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