mourners

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The men insisted relatives be allowed to conduct the burial themselves, in the traditional way, in which mourners say farewell by touching the dead one last time.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

AFP photographs showed mourners carrying Haddad's body, wrapped in a Hamas flag, on a stretcher from the ruins of a building.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

Faces in the crowd were filled with gloom and sadness as mourners waited for the Hezbollah-organised ceremony to begin.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

Joan Whyte, who had stopped to watch as a large crowd of mourners followed the coffin from the church, said when she saw the crowd she thought the funeral was of "someone very important".

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

But I stay behind the tree till the mourners leave and the grave diggers fill in the grave.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt