GRIEVE in a Sentence
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87 example sentences for GRIEVE, such as:
1. I didn't grieve over her marriage.
2. She grieved the death of her husband.
3. Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.
4. He's grieving over his dead wife and son.
5. They are still grieving for their dead child.
2. She grieved the death of her husband.
3. Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.
4. He's grieving over his dead wife and son.
5. They are still grieving for their dead child.
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Meanings and Examples of GRIEVE
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grieve
v. cause to feel sorrow
v. feel grief
Classic Sentence: (76 in 6 pages)
1 Don't grieve and fret when I am gone, or think that you can be idle and comfort yourselves by being idle and trying to forget.
2 It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be quiet, when things vex or grieve us.
3 Then they all sit round and ask questions, both those who grieve over the king's absence, and those who rejoice at it because they can eat up his property without paying for it.
4 Not to grieve a kind master, I learned to be less touchy; and, for the space of half a year, the gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it.
5 she went on in a trembling voice, "that you can do nothing for him but grieve him, and to know that you cannot alter this."
6 I grieve that my waning strength prevents rejoicing in the sight of your most gracious presence.
7 I don't grieve for myself,' he says, 'God, it seems, has chastened me.
8 Every event, joyful or sad, that took place in that house was important to all these worlds, but each had its own special reasons to rejoice or grieve over that occurrence independently of the others.
9 He was evidently oppressed, and Fanny must grieve for him, though hoping she might never see him again till he were the husband of some other woman.
10 He sends me a thousand at a time, and I grieve to say that I have to arrange for a fresh supply every fortnight.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
Context Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
11 I didn't grieve over her marriage.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
Context Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
12 His sentence was pronounced, and I could only grieve and be patient.
13 I know," she interrupted him, "how hard it is for your truthful nature to lie, and I grieve for you.
14 That's why I'm sayin you all ain't got no cause to grieve for Mr. O'Hara now.
15 The time to grieve was back when Sherman come through and he lost Mrs. O'Hara.
Example Sentence:
1 It is too late to grieve when the chance is past.
2 What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over.
3 Better one suffer, than a nation grieve.
4 What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
5 Once more she ventured, and this time she fortified herself with the thought: "It's a good lie - it's a good lie - I won't let it grieve me."
6 Your mother is very grieved by your refusal to return home.
7 She grieved the death of her husband.
8 Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.
9 Christians, Muslims and Druze were all grieving for the death of the Sunni Muslim billionaire who symbolized the revival of Lebanon after years of bloody civil war.
10 He's grieving over his dead wife and son.
11 They are still grieving for their dead child.