Example sentences for: mourning

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

  • It was not until we found a row of old men peering through the bars of the Luxembourg Gardens, mourning the death of their favorite old trees, that we realized something was afoot.

  • 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.

  • Is George W. mourning over millions of murdered babies every year?

  • Stalin's face juxtaposed with Lenin's bier in a 1939 photomontage can be imagined as mourning only by an effort of will; he is sidelit, vampiric, sinister--but then Stalin rarely fails to look sinister in photographs, and this is not merely a matter of the viewer's preconceptions.

  • ( While the men sit around mourning manfully, but in some larger and incomprehensible sense, equally.


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