How to Use sorrow in a Sentence

sorrow

1 of 2 noun
  • I felt sorrow at the death of my friend.
  • She had a secret sorrow.
  • But grief will give you so much more than sorrow.
    — Lauren Depino, CNN Money, 4 Jan. 2026
  • Anger could be enough, sorrow could be enough.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
  • This was the one place in the world where sorrow and shame couldn’t reach me.
    — Emily Meg Weinstein september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • There’s no sorrow that God can’t spring joy from.
    — Emma Tucker, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
  • Yet this book is written more in sorrow than in anger.
    — Literary Hub, 14 May 2026
  • So much love, so much sorrow in a simple glance.
    — Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
  • Words cannot capture the depth of our sorrow for their loss.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Our table knew our joy and our sorrow.
    — Peter Folan, Boston Herald, 27 Nov. 2025
  • That honesty is heard in so many of his songs in joy and sorrow.
    — Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Wishing them strength in their great sorrow.
    — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2025
  • During this time of grief and sorrow, our hearts go out to all of you.
    — Garrett Behanna, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Said squad-mate will cry out in terror and sorrow as their friend falls.
    — WIRED, 18 Oct. 2022
  • This is not a book about death, but rather about sorrow for a life that is ending.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Our Nora sorrow was no longer so small.
    — Han Ong, New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Emptiness and sorrow, pain and loss.
    — William H. McRaven, The Atlantic, 25 May 2026
  • Now, all that’s left is a gray hazmat zone filled with the sorrow of what has been lost.
    — Jacqueline Yoo, ABC News, 8 Sep. 2023
  • At times the longing feels sweet and the search like a little sorrow.
    — Literary Hub, 19 June 2026
  • And besides, our lives of nonstop pain and sorrow ain’t so bad!
    — Hilton Als, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Giving in, in this case, is drowning his sorrows in drink.
    — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Their faces shrouded in an aura of sorrow.
    — Literary Hub, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Our hearts go out to their families with the deepest of sorrow and love.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The strategists wanted to squash that sorrow.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 13 Nov. 2025
  • There are no sorrows In our lives Nor joys either.
    — Ricardo Reis, New Yorker, 9 Feb. 2026
  • In that moment at least, there was little sign of constant sorrow.
    — Chris Parton, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2026
  • El Jeffrey, a merengue song about heartbreak to dance the sorrows away.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Die and depart, Old Year, old sorrow!
    — Rafaela Jinich, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2026
  • Both joy and sorrow are temporary, as is life itself.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 3 Oct. 2025
  • These are not just the colors of sorrow, though our grief has threatened to overwhelm us at times.
    — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025

sorrow

2 of 2 verb
  • Ashton Kutcher isn’t the type to drown his breakup sorrows with a carton of ice cream and a box of tissues.
    — Mike Miller, PEOPLE.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • While that same sun will always rise in the East and set in the West, the work of these artists affirms that each new day is ours to make anew — no matter what sorrows may lay behind us.
    — Grant Klarich Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • In some places, lynchings were accompanied by mob destruction of black business districts, adding economic devastation to sorrow.
    — Vanessa Gregory, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
  • The book is one of triumph and also sorrow, including the many Black actors and actresses who died young without ever finding the success their talents merited.
    — Kate Tuttle, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2021
  • Playful and poignant in equal measure, Wheaton’s compositions are profoundly moving, evoking both loss and resilience — the sorrowing look back, and the hopeful look forward.
    — Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • And sorrow, as Marcus Arbery moved away from the line of charter buses and into the crowd of people standing where his youngest child had laid motionless and bleeding 20 months prior.
    — Asia Simone Burns, ajc, 25 Oct. 2021
  • Wilkerson took a broad, undifferentiated view of addiction—any vice, or even sorrow, constituted grounds for admission.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
  • Quickly, filmmakers, fans, and former employees took to Twitter to publicly mourn the loss, with reactions ranging from stand-alone expletives to sorrow to denial — and also some priceless remembrances.
    — Max Cea, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Combining formal audacity with emotional intimacy and sharp social observation, the picture attains a fullness of humorous, sorrowing life.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020

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