grieved
Example Sentences
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Grieved and weary but joyful, in a way, I hope, that slowly savors rather than voraciously stuffs.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2021
Grieved by his mother’s passing, Pershing wrote that “I had from her the finest heritage with which a parent can endow a child, a glorious memory.”
From New York Times • May 12, 2018
Dear Grieved, Perhaps you should be grateful that your mother didn’t bring a boom box to the burial site and blast “Happy” while doing a Pharrell Williams–style dance on the grave.
From Slate • Aug. 20, 2014
Grieved when he discovered it was not, he took the carcass straightaway to the nearest fish-and-game officer and confessed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Grieved and dismayed as he was at the airy indifference with which his son appeared to face a fatherless future, John Denby was yet pinning his faith on that year of waiting.
From The Road to Understanding by Porter, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman)
