mourners

Example Sentences

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"No words of compassion can ease this pain of loss, this burden of great suffering, when one must bury young people," the priest told black-clothed mourners, weeping or clutching flowers and holding each other.

From Barron's • May 19, 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

Celebrant Roisin McFadden told mourners that Margaret, who was born in the 1940s, was a women of "quiet routines".

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

The mourners waved in response to the occasional honk from passing motorists.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

From her bed she heard Úrsula’s weeping, the steps and whispers of the multitude that invaded the house, the wailing of the mourners, and then a deep silence that smelled of trampled flowers.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez