Sentence examples for a sad issue from inspiring English sources

"It is a sad issue," said the foreign minister, Salman Khurshid, in a televised interview.

The event quickly devolved into a sad and pathetic single-issue begging session, the majority of those precious 90 minutes squandered asking the candidates in different ways to declare their support for same-sex marriage over and over.

His hesitancy on the issue is "a sad commentary on his declining powers of political presence".

"It's certainly a sad commentary that the commissioner can issue a directive that reads well on paper but on the street corners of the city doesn't exist," said Legal Aid's chief lawyer, Steven Banks.

Rose Simkins, the chief executive of charity Stop Hate UK, said: "While we are encouraged that people have found confidence to report incidents due to the national publicity on the issue, it is a sad fact that the numbers of all hate incidents are extremely under-reported.

In retrospect, I was a sad little boy and a standard-issue, shiftless, egotistical, dejected teen-ager.

What a sad, sad day.

"This is a sad, sad day.

It's just a sad, sad situation.

A sad old dog.

A sad divorce ensued.