grief-stricken

Example Sentences

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As Nashville residents hold vigils for the victims of Monday's mass shooting at a school, this corner of a city known for its music and live entertainment has fallen into a grief-stricken hush.

From BBC

The team became the face of a grief-stricken school after a gunman killed three students and injured five others in a campus shooting on Feb. 13.

From Seattle Times

She’s been forced to play a manipulated, damaged, then grief-stricken character for multiple movies and a TV show, but in this one she finally gets to have fun being overtaken by dark magic.

From Seattle Times

Still, like a blossom that has evolved to attract a single species of insect, Aftel saw the pull her perfume has over the grief-stricken.

From Salon

Some have spoken briefly to local media, others have posted grief-stricken laments online.

From BBC