How to pronounce sorrowful

Listen to sorrowful in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.

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“sorrowful” in real sentences

62 clips in the index · 1 American · 1 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.

  1. sorrowful look upon Agarick.

    The World of Audiobooks · hear it here

  2. And they kind of put on this rather sorrowful exaggeratedly sorrowful air and taking the piss

    British Library · hear it here

  3. It may make us so sorrowful.

    Big Think · hear it here

  4. The sorrowful details are candidly discussed in Danielle's book.

    The Atlantic · hear it here

Why real speech

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