noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tinged with sadness
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His voice was tinged with sadness and regret.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
deep
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When he wondered this he felt a deep sadness .
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It was crying of the deepest sadness .
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Everywhere there was a deep sense of sadness .
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Rather, Ruskin and Morris threw themselves into so much work, I feel, to escape the deep sadness .
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It was, however, obvious that there was some deep sadness within him.
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On his face was an expression of deep sadness .
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It was a deep sadness to Goebbels that National Socialism had attracted over the years so few people of intellectual quality.
great
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As she gazed intently towards the small group that was her family, a great sadness filled Beth's heart.
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Perhaps despite great sadness to read a few paragraphs of this fascinating moon manuscript.
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As he did so, he felt a great sadness , an acute sense of loss, filling his entire being.
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And there would be a great sadness if it vanished, because it has become part of feline history.
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These will always be situations of great sadness and often pain.
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It was as if it was harbouring some great consuming sadness and had lost the urge to live.
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It is a great sadness to me, even today, that this was not possible.
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Her dark eyes, which seemed almost too large for her small features, held an expression of great sadness .
■ VERB
express
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It is this bleakness that Tennyson uses to express sadness and death.
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Yet all the while she spoke with me, she never made a sound nor expressed any sadness or regret.
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He joined the people of Britain and Ireland in expressing his own sadness at the carnage.
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However, she did not feel comfortable in talking to him about this or expressing both her sadness and her anger.
feel
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Love flared through her, she felt desire and sadness too because she knew this was a fleeting moment.
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There was a moment, I have to admit, when I was overtaken by a feeling of infinite sadness .
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When he wondered this he felt a deep sadness .
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I felt sadness , despair, and a bitter rage.
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She felt an aura of sadness around her like a pall.
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He put the box between them and felt a sudden sadness that all the warmth between them had been yanked away.
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I feel an aching sadness about Belinda amongst the pine resins and cinnamon smells and the Christmas music.
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He feels sadness in objects, in warehouse cartons and blood-soaked clothes.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a twinge of guilt/envy/sadness/jealousy etc
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Carew felt a twinge of envy.
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Romanov felt a twinge of envy at the thought that he could never hope to live in such style.
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Thrilled by the beauty of the scene, she had sometimes felt a twinge of envy for the people on board.
silence/a hush/sadness etc falls
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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After her death, Charles felt a great sense of sadness and loss.
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Her eyes were full of sadness .
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I remembered with great sadness all the friends I had left behind.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He writes me about his sadness and loneliness, his hopes and fears, his dreams and plans.
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I feel an aching sadness about Belinda amongst the pine resins and cinnamon smells and the Christmas music.
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I felt sadness , despair, and a bitter rage.
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New thinking on sadness suggests that it is the result of depressed serotonin levels.
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The sadness caused the drinking, not the other way around.
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There was no way she knew to fill up the violent sadness that had emptied her.