Example sentences for: mourners

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

  • Black was worn by mourners and the clergy, by civil and domestic servants, and by the poor as Sunday best.

  • The way I washed that taste out of my mouth was to follow some coverage of the thousands of mourners for the six Worcester firefighters.

  • New York Times Description of Crowd Funeral: "hundreds of thousands of mourners" Festival: "marauding bands of shirtless bellowing men"

  • Mourners had to undergo 50 days of purification before being allowed back on Miyajima.

  • Lincoln died in a room barely large enough to hold his bed, but Brady photographed the multitude of mourners one by one in his studio, and the painter Alonzo Chappel assembled them (often in the exact poses Brady had choreographed) in a monumental and wildly popular painting, The Last Hours of Lincoln (1868).


How many words do you know? Try our free vocabulary size test!


Search

Search for example sentences

Loading Loading...
Quantcast