7 sentences with “sadly”

The flower that was in my garden wilted, sadly.

We'll never have another dog like him, I thought sadly as we sailed upriver.

I was sadly ruminating on the news when the urologist ushered me into the exam room and said:

After we were married, my wife sadly left the Boston public schools, and we moved to Baltimore, where she has become a teaching phenomenon.

I always hear my mother's voice, when she would sadly reprimand me for my school grades, "Did you try your best, Fred? Did you really give it your best?"

Those who survived it called the First World War "The Great War" and "The War to End All Wars". While they were, sadly, wrong about the latter, they were right that no war had ever been like it.

A 2018 US Army analysis of the war sadly concluded that the closest thing to a winner to emerge from the Iraq war was, ironically, Iran, which used the lawless aftermath of the invasion to exert tremendous influence in the region.