ADVERB
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with sadness; in a sorrowful manner
his mother looked at him dolefully when he told her he had joined the Army - in a sorrowful manner
How To Use sorrowfully In A Sentence
- I fear he doesn't know a bulger from a baffy," he added sorrowfully. The Half-Back
- The girl repeated the name sorrowfully, but perplexedly, not grasping its full significance. Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
- Ministers and officers were sitting at a long table in the conference hall, a dull rain sorrowfully washing large windows.
- He named over to himself those friends on whom he might call, and then his mind paused as Betty Medill’s name hazily and sorrowfully occurred to him. Tales of the Jazz Age
- Livy laid her japonica, down to get a better "holt" for kissing -- which Susie presently perceived, and became thoughtful: then said sorrowfully, turning the great deeps of her eyes upon her mother: "Don't you care for you wow? Complete Letters of Mark Twain
- Not finding any convenient method, she sorrowfully resigned the privilege of writing to her friend entirely.
- Over the course of seven albums since 1996, they have quietly become one of the UK's most popular bands, adored for their exquisite pop sensibility and lyrics that not only owned a kind of tragi-comic precision but that were also sharply, sorrowfully beautiful. Love, Belle and Sebastian-style
- Grief; for, as they came along the Road, they found it all bloody; and having good Cause to believe it was made bloody with the Blood of some of the White Brethren, they had very sorrowfully swept the Road; and desired them to inform the Governor of_ Pensilvania _of their (the_ The Treaty Held with the Indians of the Six Nations at Philadelphia, in July 1742 To which is Prefix'd an Account of the first Confederacy of the Six Nations, their present Tributaries, Dependents, and Allies
- As a young boy, I once had to watch a father sorrowfully attempt to disregard the constant badgering of people attending the funeral of his teenage son, turning a deaf ear to rumours surrounding the circumstances of the boy's death. Fahad Faruqui: (Not) Giving In To Gossip
- He turned to look sorrowfully at the now locked and barred doors. Lance Mannion:
