mournful

the mournful sound of a train whistle.

her large, mournful eyes.

gave her a mournful look.

he emitted a short mournful squall.

the mournful sound did nothing to squash her high spirits.

"'Mr Eames,' he said, in a mournful voice, 'you have just killed that child!'"

" You have dropped into your old mournful key."

The sea gushed forward and backward; it was a mournful sound.

Since that mournful period, a great change had come over me.

" Ah me" ! once voice said, and another said, " Oh, mournful day" .

There's something mournful in his eyes when he looks back at Ove.

Their strange faces, which seemed mournful and merry all at once, looked into his.

Hence the expression, serious even to mournful, that shadowed his film-star-handsome face on the course.

There was a long pause, broken only by the mournful creak of the floorboards below Harry's feet.

Virginia Woolf's London in “Mrs Dalloway” (1925) is mournful, offering little succour after the first world war.

A listener hears the mournful feeling cowboys had for the prairie in this song called, The Dying Cowboy.