sad
[sæd]
Definition:
1. Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
2. Of things that make you feel sad.
3. Bad; unfortunate.
Use 'sad' in a sentence:
- How sad that all his hard work should come to nothing.
- I was very sad indeed to hear of your father's death.
- Don't be so sad!
- It was sad that his international career should end in such anticlimax.
- It is sad that so many of his paintings have been lost.
- Her moods kept changing—now happy, now sad.
- Her moods kept changing ─ now happy, now sad.
- You should have seen him when he first came out — it was so sad.
- It is desperately sad news and I am absolutely shattered to hear it.
- The relationship had been important to me and its loss left me feeling sad and empty.
- The saddest thing in the world is a little baby nobody wants.
- She felt very sad.
- It is sad that a major company should try to gain from other people's suffering.
- What a sad scene!
- You'd have to be sad to wear a shirt like that.
- It was a room filled with sad, sober faces.
- The book is, by turns , funny and very sad.
- She looked sad and tired.
- The sad news cast a shadow over the proceedings.
- He died five or six years ago I'm sad to say.
- You sad old man.
- We are very sad to hear that you are leaving.
- I was sad that she had to go.
- He's a sad case─his wife died last year and he can't seem to manage without her.
- The increase in crime is a sad reflection on our society today.
- We were all sad at her going.
- Richard Thorp, alias Alan Turner, said yesterday: "It is a sad time for both of us."
- It is very sad when children feel unwanted.
- He became very sad.
- How can anyone look sad at an occasion like this?
- The divorce left him sadder and wiser.
- Your article brought back sad memories for me.
- What a sad story!
- She was stirred by his sad story.
- I remember the sad spectacle of her standing in her wedding dress, covered in mud.
- When we're sad, we're really sad.
- It was sad to see them go.
- He was walking around with a sad face.
- I felt terribly sad about it.
- The book is, by turns, funny and very sad.
- He gave a slight, sad smile.
- It was kind of sad, really.
- We had some sad news yesterday.
- He's a sad case ─ his wife died last year and he can't seem to manage without her.
- I found George's story very sad. Please give him my best wishes.
- The petty quarrels were a sad commentary on the state of the government.
- "The elm trees are all dying," said Palmer, with a sad shake of his head.
- I overreact to anything sad.
- It's a sad fact that many of those killed were children.