mourners
Example Sentences
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It was later taken to a mosque where relatives and mourners offered prayers before carrying it through the streets for burial.
From Barron's • May 16, 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
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
The mourners waved in response to the occasional honk from passing motorists.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
Such a pitiful little band of mourners, so bumbling without Mr. Birdsong or anybody else to tell us what to do.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
