‘A burglar alarm on the house opposite is dolorously winking a tiny white light.’
‘‘Don't worry about it,’ he dolorously replies.’
‘Every time I came, it seemed, I met a lugubrious local figure who shook his head and dolorously announced that the weather had been beautiful until that very morning.’
‘Now you dolorously think that you really should have listened to your French teacher because you really want to understand what the site says.’
‘‘I have been trying to do something about getting a job and am tired and discouraged,’ he confessed dolorously to his diary.’
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