sorrowing

Example Sentences

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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

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

As she told widows and other sorrowing women at a lecture billed as a “grief seminar” some years later: Think positive.

From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2014

But Aethra, Theseus’ mother, to whom those other sorrowing mothers had first turned, was bold to interrupt the two Kings.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton