- present participle of sorrow.
sorrowing
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The challenge for the author is to write a pulse-pounding thriller without sorrowing over this injustice too much.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2023
“We mend, but we don’t forget,” she offers by way of comfort to the sorrowing nobleman.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
“Words fail to describe the grateful relief that this work has brought to many a sorrowing household,” wrote David Wills, a lawyer who led the effort to create the Gettysburg National Cemetery.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2020
The pervading mood in “Trickster Feminism” is of a piece with our national mood: gloom-filled, sorrowing, yet occasionally threaded with hope.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2018
It hits the weakest, most sorrowing part of me; but I am only a surrogate, for who knows what lack, what loss.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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