Sentence examples for a sad year from inspiring English sources

It's been a sad year: I lost two dear friends to cancer.

With too many deaths and too much scandal, 2001 was too often a sad year in sports.

"It's a sad year for press freedom," Robert Mahoney, the group's deputy director, said at a news conference held at the United Nations.

I've heard lots of people say it's a sad year for fiction but I think these people were just looking in the wrong direction".

I'll list my faves...Celeste Holmes, Andy Rooney, Gil Cates, Whitney Houston - what a sad year, Ben Gazzarra, Donna Summer, Tony Scott.

It was a sad year for bar closings, shop closings, and the general squashing of independents by luxury this-and-that nightmares, but it was also a delightful year for openings, and in my capacity as a Bar Tab writer I've visited some terrific new bars.

December 29 2003 - a magical end to a very sad year This piece exactly completes 53 years of these fortnightly effusions.

Since 2016 is already a hideously sad year, here is a hideously sad truth: one day, we're going to go out for the last time.

It's been a mad, sad year.

It was a sad, sad year for music.

For many, myself included, this has been a very sad year, and the ending of it seems especially difficult to endure with everybody so happy about Christmas.