Words similar to mourning
Example sentences for: mourning
How can you use “mourning” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Now the time for mourning is at an end, but those in high places should never forget--the time for learning goes on."
Following a suitable period of mourning for his exploded mate (five seconds), Austin greets his restored bachelorhood with a frenzy of exhibitionism--romping nude through the lobby of his posh hotel, pointing out his privates to assorted female passers-by, and launching into a lengthy water ballet in the company of Esther Williams-style chorines.
The cover story earnestly deconstructs pro wrestling, mourning it as evidence of America's moral decline.
(Alaska did reject a ban of wolf traps, and Ohioans voted to continue the hunting of mourning doves.)
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.