grief-stricken
Example Sentences
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As Nashville residents hold vigils for the victims of Monday's mass shooting at a school, this corner of a city known for its music and live entertainment has fallen into a grief-stricken hush.
From BBC
The team became the face of a grief-stricken school after a gunman killed three students and injured five others in a campus shooting on Feb. 13.
From Seattle Times
He said a week ago the hopes and dreams of a member of the school community were taken from him in an "unimaginably cruel fashion" and staff and students remained "bewildered and grief-stricken".
From BBC
“These are uniformly desired pregnancies, and the patients are generally grief-stricken to be ending the pregnancy.”
From Washington Post
In 1966, after an avalanche of coal slurry killed 144 people — most of them schoolchildren — in the Welsh mining village of Aberfan, she was criticized for waiting eight days before visiting the grief-stricken residents.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
