MOODINESS in a Sentence

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31 example sentences for MOODINESS, such as:

1. He can be rather moody at times.
2. Most women are moody and whimsical.
3. Keith had seemed moody all morning.
4. The slow movement is wonderfully moody and rhapsodic.
5. I was moody and restless that winter, and tired of the people I saw every day.

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 Meanings and Examples of MOODINESS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
moodiness
 n.  feeling of depression or gloom; sullenness
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  Melanie sensed her moodiness but, crediting it to longing for Charlie, did not try to engage her in conversation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  And so too, all the added moodiness which always afterwards, to the very day of sailing in the Pequod on the present voyage, sat brooding on his brow.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
3  The old restless moodiness had again filled his breast as it had done on the night of the party, but had not found an outlet in verse.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  Rhett sat still, the reins lax in his hands, looking after them, a curious moody look on his swarthy face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  His moody eyes went over her shoulder as though he saw Melanie silently passing through the room to the door.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
6  Either you want to dance, or you bang the piano, or else you get moody as the devil and don't want to talk or anything else.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
7  In this same New Bedford there stands a Whaleman's Chapel, and few are the moody fishermen, shortly bound for the Indian Ocean or Pacific, who fail to make a Sunday visit to the spot.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. The Chapel.
8  And once for all, let me tell thee and assure thee, young man, it's better to sail with a moody good captain than a laughing bad one.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
9  And not only that, but moody stricken Ahab stood before them with a crucifixion in his face; in all the nameless regal overbearing dignity of some mighty woe.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
10  From his complete inattention to the tidings, you would think that moody Ahab had not heard his menial.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
11  The three men were then cut down, all hands were turned to, and, sullenly worked by the moody seamen, the iron pumps clanged as before.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
12  If moody Ahab was now all quiescence, at least so far as could be known on deck, Stubb, his second mate, flushed with conquest, betrayed an unusual but still good-natured excitement.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
13  I was moody and restless that winter, and tired of the people I saw every day.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
14  Our excitement began with the rise of the curtain, when the moody Varville, seated before the fire, interrogated Nanine.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
15  Most women are moody and whimsical.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXII
Example Sentence:
1  Her recurrent moodiness left her feeling as if she had fallen into a black hole.
2  Keith had seemed moody all morning.
3  The slow movement is wonderfully moody and rhapsodic.
4  He can be rather moody at times.
5  The monotonous routine of hospital life induced a feeling of ennui that made him moody and irritable.