sorrow
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From the moment she walked onto the stage at his public memorial in Arizona to fireworks more suited for a World Series championship, Erika Kirk has alienated people, even drawing accusations of faking her sorrow.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Kenyan President William Ruto said he received the news of his passing with "deep sorrow".
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
How are we to know that one section is meant as sorrow and the other as joy?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
But raw, unadulterated nature delivers both sorrow and joy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
Her sorrow flowed to me; the numbness began to clear.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
They have sorrows of their own — a wife and mother recently lost to cancer — and have decided to start fresh in the town where she and Tom grew up.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
Our existence is the result of our ancestors’ survival and ability to imagine a future worth enduring the present’s sorrows.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 2026
In post-post-war American culture, suburbs and small towns are more often than not a stage for secrets, sorrows, scandals and satire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2026
"Her films, her voice, her dazzling glory, her initials, her sorrows, her generous passion for animals, her face that became Marianne, Brigitte Bardot embodied a life of freedom," he said.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
“Yet our priests fast, and inflict on themselves severe punishments, and we are taught to bear our sorrows in silence, and all this is so that the soul may be cleansed.”
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
And I sorrowed for my father’s harm as though I had been smitten myself; so sorrowed I for his unhappy old age.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
“We are incredibly sorrowed at the loss of Officer Galvez and our thoughts and prayers are with all who knew and loved him.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2015
You’ve clucked, sorrowed and sighed at “The Pride”: plus ça change, plus c’est la même self-esteem issue.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2010
Innumerable American children sorrowed; nurses worried; mothers wrote, letters to Mr. Cox.
From Time Magazine Archive
They sorrowed in their dreaming and they sorrowed in their waking up.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
The challenge for the author is to write a pulse-pounding thriller without sorrowing over this injustice too much.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
“We mend, but we don’t forget,” she offers by way of comfort to the sorrowing nobleman.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
“Words fail to describe the grateful relief that this work has brought to many a sorrowing household,” wrote David Wills, a lawyer who led the effort to create the Gettysburg National Cemetery.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2020
Any information will be gladly received by their sorrowing mother, Catherine Mason, at 1818 Hancock St., between Master and Thompson, Phila.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2015
Demeter, goddess of the harvest wealth, was still more the divine sorrowing mother who saw her daughter die each year.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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"The Monkey's Paw" by W. W. Jacobs
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