Example sentences for: mourned

How can you use “mourned” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • To say that Shawn was "a man who grieved over all living creatures" is forgivable hyperbole; but later to add that he "mourned" for Si Newhouse when Newhouse unceremoniously fired him in 1987 (a couple of years after buying the magazine)--well, that's a bit much.

  • One imagines that discriminating people in the 16 th century mourned the death of high fashion in much the same way, when slashed sleeves, grotesquely imitating the rags of mercenary soldiers, came into style.

  • Yi, who lived during the fifth century b.c., died at the age of 25 and was greatly mourned.

  • "Most people--even those who read editorial and op-ed pages--do not want to encounter opposing views," he mourned in What I Think . "They want to be massaged not informed."

  • A few things have been lost--the inn burned down (though few outside the insurance company mourned its loss), as did the little grocery store (much mourned when the milk supply runs low and the harbor lies a foggy three miles distant)--but not much has been added.


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