Sentence examples for faint sad from inspiring English sources

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Staring into the darkness, Don conjures scenes of the sordid, poverty-stricken way he came into the world, images accompanied by faint, sad strains of "My Old Kentucky Home".

Lee expected this paper trick to please his mother, but she, studying the drawing and making the head poke out once or twice, conveyed a faint sad sense that he had been cruel, because Betty Jean after all was a faithful friend, one of the few friends he had.

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Port-au-Prince has neither port nor prince, As tempests incessantly sweep through, 1804's bright filament becomes faint and sad, Dimming like a dying firefly.

In a sound installation by the British artist Susan Philipsz a woman's voice, high, sad and faint, periodically floats through the space, singing "The Internationale," the old Communist anthem, as if it were a hymn.

The faint sounds of "Happy to Be Sad" by Keeper.

As one respondent noted, " It was very sad to see people almost fainting because they were so scared they wouldn't do well…I saw co-workers that I felt so bad for that were crying, that were hyperventilating, that were sick" (C-06).

He also gyrated a lot on his love songs — even the sad ones — which drew cheers that had a faint whiff of patronization.

Arms extended in sad, imploring farewell, bodies swaying as if animated by some faint, underwater current.

She sang a sad song clearly she knew all the words and in the rests he thought he detected the faint swish of a magazine.

Sad to say, upon our late-evening arrival in March, the suite we were offered bore only faint resemblance to the description.

Very faint.

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