mourning
Example Sentences
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Purely as entertainment, it is inert; the story, about a family in mourning, features histrionics worthy of grand opera and a level of rudeness that could peel paint.
Pedro R. Díaz played the haunting English horn solos—in costume in the tunnel—embodying the lifelong mourning that torments Tristan.
“I’m not in mourning. I’m just . . .” I trail off because I don’t have a word for the hollow ache behind my ribs.
From Literature
California Sen. Adam Schiff said his thoughts are with Marzan’s family and the people of Sacramento, who are mourning the loss of one of their own.
From Los Angeles Times
Now, Iowa is mourning as questions and bursts of bittersweet pride begin again.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
