Sentence examples for a very sad time from inspiring English sources

It is a very sad time".

"Christmas can be a very sad time.

We're living in a very sad time.

Mr. President, this is a very sad time for America.

"It was after a very sad time for me.

"It's a very sad time in Philadelphia sports history".

"It's a very, very sad time".

"Their thoughts and prayers are with Jacintha Saldanha's family, friends and colleagues at this very sad time". A St James's Palace spokesman added that the palace had "at no point" complained about the hoax incident.

"The club would like to pass on their condolences to Malcolm's family and friends at this very sad time," read a statement on the Leyton Orient website.

Van's thoughts are with Brenda, and the family, at this very sad time". Mark Knopfler said he was "an extremely talented and committed songwriter who applied himself to his craft at all times".

After the war, his fiancée told an interviewer that, when he visited her in the period following the Lusitania's sinking, he was "haggard and so silent and so different"; before his death, he wrote a comrade of his that he longed for the end of "this very sad time".