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

Joan Whyte, who had stopped to watch as a large crowd of mourners followed the coffin from the church, said when she saw the crowd she thought the funeral was of "someone very important".

From BBC • Apr. 21, 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

When it came time to give the deceased the final kiss, the mourners filed past Milton’s coffin and kissed its burnished lid.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides