Example sentences for: mourners

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

  • During the summers, every city and small town had its revival tent where repentant sinners walked down the aisle, the sawdust trail , to the mourners' bench for prayer and sometimes emotional repentance.

  • Often, women in the local Islamic community prepare food for mourners and their guests.

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

  • He was enormously popular with the common Turkish people, and when he died in 1938 thousands of mourners lined the railway track to salute the white presidential train as it carried him from Istanbul for burial in Ankara, the new capital.

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


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