mourners

Example Sentences

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In tears as they walked through the village of Baysariyeh, the mourners gathered to remember Khalil, the ninth journalist killed in Lebanon this year.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 23, 2026

Faces in the crowd were filled with gloom and sadness as mourners waited for the Hezbollah-organised ceremony to begin.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

It followed the funeral of a young Israeli, Yehuda Sherman, at the nearby settlement of Elon Moreh, which was attended by hundreds of mourners and several leading Israeli politicians.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Near the register book where mourners signed their names, someone posted a few of Bill’s treasured truisms.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

They were holding a great flying-meet way up over the heads of the mourners and some of the nearby trees were already peopled with the stoop-shouldered forms.

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston