grief-stricken

Example Sentences

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Tyndale introduced the English people to a God who eats with sinners, heals the sick and comforts the grief-stricken: a loving God on a mission to rescue mankind.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Jessie Buckley, who plays the grief-stricken Agnes, is odds-on favourite for best leading actress after winning the best drama actress honours at the Golden Globes.

From Barron's • Feb. 22, 2026

After leaving his newborn daughter in the care of his sister Bamie, a grief-stricken Roosevelt fled to his cattle ranch in the Dakota Territory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 29, 2025

After the killing, when Gandbhir’s lens shifts to interrogation footage mixed with scenes of a broken community’s grief-stricken public protesting, we get more proof of who in our society gets the benefit of the doubt.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2025

“Well,” Brinker qualified judiciously, “not actually killed. Finny’s hanging between life and death at home, in the arms of his grief-stricken old mother.”

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles