Doleful Definition

Doleful Sentence Examples

• In wealthy households ceremonial mourners would be hired to look suitably doleful.

• If they mistakenly selected a pair of numbers which did not total 10, it was met with a rather doleful ' moo ' !

• These days stand statuesque, They do not meet your gaze, Nor the doleful hunt of eyes for love Among stale upholstery.

• Toll on, thou passing bell; Ring out my doleful knell; Let thy sound my death tell.

• In a few of the older districts, too, where land is least valuable, there are antique one-storeyed houses, surrounded by poplars and acacias; while the gipsies and Rumans, wearing their brightly coloured native costumes, the Russian coachmen, or sleighdrivers, of the banished Lipovan sect, and the pedlars, with their doleful street cries, render Bucharest unlike any western capital.