Mournfully is an English word. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Mournfully meaning
In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.
Using Mournfully
- The main meaning on this page is: In a mournful manner; as if in mourning for something.
- In the example corpus, mournfully often appears in combinations such as: and mournfully.
Context around Mournfully
- Average sentence length in these examples: 32.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 4 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mournfully
- In this selection, "mournfully" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 32.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ring, almost, musgraves, accepting, repeated and reminisces stand out and add context to how "mournfully" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and almost mournfully repeated over and memorabilia and mournfully accepting that. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mournfully" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aage and aardvarks, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mournfully
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Each of us has his time and place, I unconvincingly and almost mournfully repeated over and over to myself. (19 words)
The first of these singles is the piano heavy ballad “Space Cowboy” in which Musgraves mournfully reminisces upon fading love and the heartbreak that comes with letting someone go. (29 words)
On Holy Friday, church bells throughout ring mournfully all day long and in the evening there is the Procession of the Epitaphios – representing the coffin of Christ – in each parish. (30 words)
All I remember is the weary spouse of a woman devoted to the late Jim Reeves, sitting in a family home that had become a mausoleum of memorabilia, and mournfully accepting that his wife had only married him because his name happened to be James Reeves. (46 words)
The statement said, “However, Nigerians do sincerely and mournfully remembered what the conditions of things were in relation to unemployment, corruption and general decadence of our many institutions of governance in the 16 years of PDP in power. (38 words)
When I called earlier in the evening to check whether they had space for us, they said, mournfully: “Yes, we can fit you in. Sadly, we don’t do that much business mid-week. (34 words)
Example sentences (6)
On Holy Friday, church bells throughout ring mournfully all day long and in the evening there is the Procession of the Epitaphios – representing the coffin of Christ – in each parish.
All I remember is the weary spouse of a woman devoted to the late Jim Reeves, sitting in a family home that had become a mausoleum of memorabilia, and mournfully accepting that his wife had only married him because his name happened to be James Reeves.
Each of us has his time and place, I unconvincingly and almost mournfully repeated over and over to myself.
The first of these singles is the piano heavy ballad “Space Cowboy” in which Musgraves mournfully reminisces upon fading love and the heartbreak that comes with letting someone go.
The statement said, “However, Nigerians do sincerely and mournfully remembered what the conditions of things were in relation to unemployment, corruption and general decadence of our many institutions of governance in the 16 years of PDP in power.
When I called earlier in the evening to check whether they had space for us, they said, mournfully: “Yes, we can fit you in. Sadly, we don’t do that much business mid-week.
Common combinations with mournfully
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: