Example sentences for: mourning

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

  • Red is the color for weddings and celebrations; white is the color of death and mourning.

  • Critics applaud performances by Rip Torn ( The Larry Sanders Show ) and Shirley Knight as a middle-aged Houston couple mourning their son's death: "They get all the small regional footnotes of gesture and inflection just right.

  • 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.

  • It's about acing a race, tasting the rain, reaping a new harvest, mourning a loss, watching a rocket blast into space.

  • Fado’s origins are unclear; it may have developed as a form of mourning for men lost at sea or it may be a relic of the days of slavery — a kind of Iberian blues.


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