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
It was later taken to a mosque where relatives and mourners offered prayers before carrying it through the streets for burial.
From Barron's • May 16, 2026
Sadio, a mother of two, had been among about 100 mourners at the wake for 80-year-old Dianne Boatong.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
The mourners waved in response to the occasional honk from passing motorists.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
But I’d never heard of the dead sitting up in the funeral home, at the viewing, in front of all the mourners, and wailing his or her fool head off!
From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles
