Sentence examples for first sad from inspiring English sources

This is not the first sad song we've heard sung, of course.

It was silent until a few moments ago, when the first sad gasp was heard from the far corner.

The poem eulogizes the stone squadron in its first sad stanza: I have a feeling for those old ships, Each worn and ancient one, With great bluff bows and broad in the beam: Ay, it was unkindly done.

So, by comparison with what might have been, events now seem not quite as cruel as they did when the president made his first sad broadcast last Friday morning.

But apocalypse or no, maybe this first sad chapter in Donnie's strange trajectory was just what happens when an unknown director offers up a story this odd without a wall of marketing or, crucially, a major star.

The first sad truth is that most consumer electronics cannot be made in "expensive" countries like the US or the Euro zone.

And you want to know the second sad thing?

"A drop rises to the surface about every 20 seconds, sad and spooky, like a message floating up from an underwater grave," says David Brinkley, the program's narrator.

Indeed, according to the Sentencing Project and Human Rights Watch, almost a third of black men in Alabama and Florida are permanently banned from voting.A second sad fact, at least for Democrats and blacks, is the January 25th decision by the Supreme Court that the 2000 census should not employ sampling techniques to determine the reapportioning of the 435 House seats.

My wife went to bed in the fifth, sad and alone, as I stayed up to watch the bitter end.

I decided this was meant to happen, never spent a second sad about it, and within months had a much better situation worked out.