It saddens me that we could not agree.
We were saddened to see how ill she looks.
She was saddened over the death of her friend.
Her face saddened when she heard the news.
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And so the Mississippi River has been this flow of commerce both up and down the river for a long time, but I was really saddened to hear how much of that commerce was people.—
Dana Taylor,
USA Today,
3 July 2026 Parishioners at Saint Agnes said they were saddened by the schism and would continue to pray for a united church.—ABC News,
3 July 2026 By the journey’s end, I was incredibly saddened that my Valhalla experience had come to an end after two whole days of driving.—
Matthew MacConnell,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2026 Ryan Carson, the CEO of Untangle, which provides legal workflow software for divorce attorneys, said in a post on X he was saddened by Petersen’s opinion.—
Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez,
Fortune,
24 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for sadden