MOURN in a Sentence
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217 example sentences for MOURN, such as:
1. O, Erin, mourn with grief and woe.
2. The entire nation mourned her death.
3. The couple mourned for their dead child.
4. The dog looked mournfully after its owner.
5. She mourned her dead child for many years.
2. The entire nation mourned her death.
3. The couple mourned for their dead child.
4. The dog looked mournfully after its owner.
5. She mourned her dead child for many years.
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Meanings and Examples of MOURN
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mourn
v. feel sadness
v. observe the customs of mourning after the death of a loved one
Classic Sentence: (198 in 14 pages)
1 By this time to-morrow you will, please God, have passed them, and have drunk of the sweet waters; so do not mourn overmuch.
2 O, Erin, mourn with grief and woe.
3 It was more than a year since his death, more than a year since the news came; she seemed as though she would remember and mourn for ever.
4 No, I wouldn't mourn if she never came again.
5 But she is a saint in heaven, sir; and it ill becomes one whose foot rests on the grave to mourn a lot so blessed.
6 Well, I am like a shipwrecked woman clinging to some wreckage--no one to mourn for, no one to care for.
7 Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
8 Beth mourned as for a departed kitten, and Meg refused to defend her pet.
9 Then, going upstairs with her handmaids into her room, she mourned her dear husband till Minerva shed sweet sleep over her eyes.
10 Then Penelope went upstairs again and mourned her husband till Minerva shed sleep over her eyes.
11 Then going upstairs with her handmaids into her room, she mourned her dear husband till Minerva sent sweet sleep over her eyelids.
12 Pitty would probably make matters worse, for she honestly mourned Frank.
13 For a second she loathed her laughter; mourned for the day when on her hill by the Mississippi she had walked the battlements with queens.
14 She mourned, "It's only the baby that holds me."
15 In the ravine a ringdove mourned plaintively, and somewhere off in the bushes an owl hooted.
Example Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1 To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.
2 When the government is finally brought down, no one will mourn its passing.
3 One must mourn not the death of men but their birth.
4 Hundreds of people gathered to mourn the slain president.
5 There should have been even dearer ones to bear his name and mourn his loss.
6 She mourned her dead child for many years.
7 The couple mourned for their dead child.
8 The entire nation mourned her death.
9 The manager announced his resignation and everybody mourned.
10 The dog looked mournfully after its owner.
11 The gale still rising, seemed to my ear to muffle a mournful under-sound; whether in the house or abroad I could not at first tell, but it recurred, doubtful yet doleful at every lull; at last I made out it must be some dog howling at a distance.
12 The stranger, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge.
13 He gazed round the table; he saw they were all waiting for his explanation, and his expression grew mournful.
14 He'd got all that coat of arms business fixed, so now he started in to finish up the rest of that part of the work, which was to plan out a mournful inscription -- said Jim got to have one, like they all done.
15 This cypress is tall and thin, and its branches used as a symbol of mourning.