Example sentences for: mourning

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

  • The old mess hall is now the “Little Chapel on the Square,” where the stained-glass windows portray not saints but Mounties, notably a reveille bugler and guard in mourning.

  • They disguise mourning as celebration; they celebrate whatever is going, or gone.

  • But the occasion is one for mourning a separation, not for celebrating a connection.

  • It was, one realized, a scene of gravity, even of mourning: Here were today's analysts, at a time when psychoanalysis seems to be sputtering to an undignified end, done in by managed health care, psychopharmacology, and the intellectual vindication of behavioral psychologists by modern trends in genetics.

  • Slate received several letters mourning the retirement of "Dear Prudence," a weekly advice column.


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