mourners
Example Sentences
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Before processing to the cemetery, the priest asked the mourners to believe that the girls -- whose names translate to "faith" and "love" -- were now in a better place and with God.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
"No words of compassion can ease this pain of loss, this burden of great suffering, when one must bury young people," the priest told black-clothed mourners, weeping or clutching flowers and holding each other.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
Sadio, a mother of two, had been among about 100 mourners at the wake for 80-year-old Dianne Boatong.
From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026
The mourners waved in response to the occasional honk from passing motorists.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
She pushed him ahead as they joined the long line of mourners shuffling past the casket.
From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer
