- present participle of grieve.
grieving
Example Sentences
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She and Sonny spent much of 2025 living between more than a dozen places as Walsh was grieving.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The key thing to understand about Andy Burnham's speech is these were the words and the delivery of both a new prime minister and a grieving son.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
"A lot of these messages are two guys having rage talk and crying on the phone together while we were grieving."
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Her eldest son, Pierre, a businessman and former Olympic swimmer, paid for a stay at a friend’s Venice bed-and-breakfast, all but forcing his grieving mother out of Paris and to sunny L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
As she sat talking to her child’s spirit, someone else almost always came near, added their tobacco, said a few words of comfort, and passed on to their own grieving.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
