Sentence examples for sad bid from inspiring English sources

"I hope to God when I'm nearing 50, I won't be digging out my trainers and my dodgy Lycra top and heading out for some sad bid to relive a heady but very hazy weekend from the summer of 1994".

Some scenes – not least that in which a repressed homosexual dentist finally makes a sickeningly sad bid for the favours of the hotel-worker who has helped him as a guide in Bangkok – were strong meat for the world of Shaftesbury Avenue and Made in Bangkok had undeservedly only a moderate West End run.

Harriet Harman, Labour's deputy leader and shadow culture secretary, said: "Ceefax is a great national institution, and it's sad to bid goodbye to a service which gave so many access to news, sport, TV listings and much else besides.

By the end, instead of being sad to bid adieu, we're just relieved not to have yet another disbelief-suspending flash-forward thrust upon us".

Here is an excerpt: Oh! Abbottabad we are leaving you now To your natural beauty do I bow Perhaps your winds sound will never reach my ear My gift for you is a few sad tears I bid you farewell with a heavy heart Never from my mind will your memories thwart.

Football bid a sad farewell to a Hall of Famer and great ambassador in Art Donovan.

On a sad note, the Rapids bid adieu to a club legend as they shipped Pablo Mastroeni to the Galaxy.

It is at this point that we bid a sad farewell to the likes of Ryan Seacrest, Robin Roberts and the bloody carpet and step inside the Dolby theatre.

We ate barbecued crayfish and scallops on the beach on our way down to Christchurch, where, after 1,000 miles, we bid a sad farewell to Herbie.

This was my last night in Australia!! The following day I bid a sad farewell to my home of five months and got on a plane for south-east Asia - first stop Bali!

Downstairs, Frederik insisted we have a shot of cognac with him after breakfast (an Icelandic horse-riding tradition, apparently), and with that we bid a sad farewell to Hotel Rangá and turned back to the west in search of the lava tunnel.