Explore Saddening through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like depressing or depressive. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Saddening meaning
present participle and gerund of sadden
Synonyms of Saddening
Using Saddening
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of sadden
- Useful related words include: depressing, depressive, gloomy, sad.
- In the example corpus, saddening often appears in combinations such as: saddening to, the saddening, and saddening.
Context around Saddening
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 8 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Saddening
- In this selection, "saddening" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, incredibly, deeply, bit, decision, news and perspectives stand out and add context to how "saddening" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bit saddening to see and a very saddening incident. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "saddening" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with saddening
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It is very saddening for me. (6 words)
What happened with me is a very saddening incident. (9 words)
His story is also incredibly saddening, but worth experiencing. (9 words)
What is even more saddening is that almost all the women leaders both at parliamentary and local government levels who passed on have been replaced by men, thereby causing the reduction in the number of women in leadership positions. (39 words)
Saddening that even with such laws, some people still openly perpetuate the disgusting act of child marriage and betrothing a baby girl to a baby boy or even worse, a baby girl to a man many years her elder. (39 words)
Saddening as it is that this is the last hoorah of what has cemented itself as one of, if not greatest action series of all time, no sound-minded viewer would have it any other way. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Saddening as it is that this is the last hoorah of what has cemented itself as one of, if not greatest action series of all time, no sound-minded viewer would have it any other way.
Unfortunately, the owners had to make the saddening decision to close restaurant this month as the business was struggling with industry pressures and rising costs.
His daughter, Jessie Withers, announced the saddening news on Friday.
Witnessing the video games I love so deeply morph into a site for the same bigotry that I try to escape in the real world has been incredibly saddening.
And it’s sad, it’s exciting, but it’s saddening to see anything burn,” said Vendetta Egbert.
Dominika, a Vegan Society spokesperson, said she was still “very optimistic” about the future of veganism despite the “very saddening” number of animals killed in the UK every year.
It was a bit saddening to see that in almost every category of the night, there was someone who was not in attendance.
On his Twitter handle, Adityanath tweeted, тАЬThe news of untimely death of my colleague in the UP government, cabinet minister Kamal Rani Varun is saddening.
Osinbajo, in a statement on Thursday in Abuja, said the news of Fasanmi’s death was saddening.
The armed attack on three villages of Taspma, Tungan Mongoro and Nautiko villages at the outskirt of Minna has been described as worrisome, barbaric and saddening.
This brings our attention to the saddening perspectives of most students, which is that education begins and end within the four walls of their institutions.
What happened with me is a very saddening incident.
What is even more saddening is that almost all the women leaders both at parliamentary and local government levels who passed on have been replaced by men, thereby causing the reduction in the number of women in leadership positions.
Williams organised the GoFundMe fundraiser to send Bayles to Disneyland, while Davis said the video was 'deeply saddening'.
Dover town councillor, Tui Sancha, described the decision as both "shocking" and "saddening" and said school chiefs had left the "iconic" building in "deliberate neglect".
His story is also incredibly saddening, but worth experiencing.
In the end, the 72-year-old was forced to postpone the show, saddening fans hoping to see him one last time, and leaving many worried for his health.
It is very saddening for me.
Mustafa Farooq, executive director of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, said: "Seeing the prime minister in brownface/blackface is deeply saddening.
Saddening that even with such laws, some people still openly perpetuate the disgusting act of child marriage and betrothing a baby girl to a baby boy or even worse, a baby girl to a man many years her elder.
Common combinations with saddening
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- saddening to 5×
- the saddening 4×
- and saddening 4×
- it saddening 3×
- very saddening 3×
- is saddening 3×
- incredibly saddening 2×
- was saddening 2×
- more saddening 2×
- saddening and 2×