mourners

Example Sentences

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The men insisted relatives be allowed to conduct the burial themselves, in the traditional way, in which mourners say farewell by touching the dead one last time.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

AFP photographs showed mourners carrying Haddad's body, wrapped in a Hamas flag, on a stretcher from the ruins of a building.

From Barron's • May 16, 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

U2, Andrea Corr and Daniel O'Donnell were among the mourners at the funeral of Irish music star Moya Brennan, who was described as the "first lady of Celtic music".

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

The mourners were all up front with the corpse—admiring the roses that framed her head, I expect.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns