1.   A sad state of affairs, but it is so.

2.   I do not need to detain the House with a contemporary history of that sad state.

3.   The unfinished building stood for several years as a mute witness to their sad state.

4.   This sad state of affairs does not have to continue.

5.   On the other hand, it is a sad state of affairs when the profits from drinks and ice cream come before Shakespeare.

6.   And when people do it every day on television, it exposes the sad state of education in the richest country in the world.

7.   And when he complains of the sad state of computers now, the critique is only a prelude to how good the future will be.

8.   First there is Antoine Stuart, the disillusioned and unhappy police commissioner whose career is in such a sad state that he spends whole days at the beach.

9.   I lost my rod to the bottom of the ocean and cringed when I pointed out this sad state of affairs to my Dad.

10.   If progress moves at its own leisurely pace in the state, it only reinforces the knowledge that Augusta remains in a sad state of affairs.