grief
Example Sentences
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After the sentencing on Monday, Mark Nowak said the family would carry their grief "every single day for the rest of their lives."
From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026
There’s no harm in a bit of rosy romanticization if it makes a life obscured by grief that much lighter.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026
Prosecuting barrister Nicholas Lobbenberg KC said Digwa had a "weapons obsession", adding that his depiction to police of Nowak as a "racist, drunk, violent aggressor compounds the natural grief and loss of the deceased's family".
From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026
Raised Baptist in a Republican family, Waldorf struggled to understand what the doctors were saying as waves of grief hit her.
From Salon • May 27, 2026
But in the moment of the conversation my pointed questions had flown out of my head and they were replaced instead by grief and confusion.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Vocabulary lists containing grief
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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