How to Use mourning in a Sentence

mourning

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  • Anne wrote that book out of the mourning of losing a child.
    — Precious Fondren, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
  • For those who observe it, Nakba Day is not only a day for mourning, but for a sense of re-establishment.
    — TIME, 15 May 2024
  • Adam Sandler is mourning costar Joe Flaherty after his death at 82.
    — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The government declared Friday, May 10, to be a national day of mourning.
    — Emmanuel Igunza, NPR, 10 May 2024
  • Editors’ Picks Monday was a national day of mourning in Australia, with flags flying at half-staff throughout the country.
    — Victoria Kim, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
  • When the two women meet, awkwardly thrown together by their friends’ collective mourning, a sense of mutual loss supersedes any confession or explanation.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 15 May 2024
  • With the war in Gaza raging, this is a city in mourning.
    — Samar Hazboun, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
  • The world is in mourning for Friends star Matthew Perry.
    — Vulture, 29 Oct. 2023
  • But even in mourning, Gaga is honoring the time spent and the songs sung with Bennett, on and off the stage.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
  • The fashion world is in mourning as the news of model and cover girl Gail O’Neill has passed away.
    — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 13 Oct. 2023
  • A day of mourning will be observed in the state on Saturday.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 3 June 2023
  • Nine months later and still in mourning, Van Gundy has revealed the cause.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 25 May 2024
  • As the mourning families took to the stage, they were met with a standing ovation.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • At the start of the uprising, women were cutting off their hair as an act of protest and a sign of mourning.
    — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 14 June 2023
  • The Greek government has declared three days of national mourning in the wake of the tragedy.
    — Will Gretsky, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Hussle’s death sparked more than a week of citywide mourning.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Women in black mourning weeds gathered and hummed dirges.
    — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
  • The upheaval had begun with mourning: a memorial service for a law student found dead on the side of the road.
    — John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
  • Roth went through his mourning process in the fall and is now trying to find work for his devoted colleagues at the network.
    — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • The Saudi flag is never flown at half-staff at times of national mourning anywhere in the world.
    — Aimee Look, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Flags around the city are flying at half-mast to mark three days of national mourning announced by the monarchy.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
  • There’s also no one-size-fits-all approach to the grief journey of a school or a student, and no linear stages of mourning.
    — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
  • As the mourning concluded at the cemetery and Amal's aunt placed a poster of the girl at the spot where she was killed, the disturbing hum of drones resumed overhead.
    — Diego Ibarra Sánchez, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The nation is in a state of mourning Tuesday and a presidential election is set in late June.
    — Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 21 May 2024
  • Rebecca had the daunting task of overseeing the production in the midst of mourning.
    — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
  • What remained was a quiet mourning for what researchers feared would become of the sawfish.
    — Max Chesnes, Orlando Sentinel, 26 June 2024
  • In addition, for Shia Muslims, Muharram is a time of mourning.
    — Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 12 June 2023
  • In episode 2, the teens decided to do right by Jackie and finally, after two months of mourning, burn her body.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Khan’s recipes can be elaborate (and well worth the effort), such as a mourning pulao that loops together life and death.
    — Meher Mirza, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Until a night of partying went horribly wrong and set a course for a lifetime of mourning.
    — al, 19 Jan. 2023

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