How to Use mourning in a Sentence

mourning

noun

• The whole town was in mourning.
• She is still in mourning for her dead husband.
• His widow was dressed in mourning.
• With the war in Gaza raging, this is a city in mourning.
  — Samar Hazboun, New York Times, 23 Dec. 2023
• The world is in mourning for Friends star Matthew Perry.
  — Vulture, 29 Oct. 2023
• But even in mourning, Gaga is honoring the time spent and the songs sung with Bennett, on and off the stage.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 31 July 2023
• The fashion world is in mourning as the news of model and cover girl Gail O’Neill has passed away.
  — Shelby Stewart, Essence, 13 Oct. 2023
• A day of mourning will be observed in the state on Saturday.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 3 June 2023
• As the mourning families took to the stage, they were met with a standing ovation.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• At the start of the uprising, women were cutting off their hair as an act of protest and a sign of mourning.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 14 June 2023
• The Greek government has declared three days of national mourning in the wake of the tragedy.
  — Will Gretsky, ABC News, 1 Mar. 2023
• Hussle’s death sparked more than a week of citywide mourning.
  — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• Women in black mourning weeds gathered and hummed dirges.
  — Tony Perrottet, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2024
• The upheaval had begun with mourning: a memorial service for a law student found dead on the side of the road.
  — John Eligon Joao Silva, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• Roth went through his mourning process in the fall and is now trying to find work for his devoted colleagues at the network.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2024
• The Saudi flag is never flown at half-staff at times of national mourning anywhere in the world.
  — Aimee Look, CNN, 18 Sep. 2023
• Flags around the city are flying at half-mast to mark three days of national mourning announced by the monarchy.
  — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 10 Sep. 2023
• There’s also no one-size-fits-all approach to the grief journey of a school or a student, and no linear stages of mourning.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 25 Jan. 2024
• As the mourning concluded at the cemetery and Amal's aunt placed a poster of the girl at the spot where she was killed, the disturbing hum of drones resumed overhead.
  — Diego Ibarra Sánchez, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
• Rebecca had the daunting task of overseeing the production in the midst of mourning.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• In addition, for Shia Muslims, Muharram is a time of mourning.
  — Manal Aman, Woman's Day, 12 June 2023
• In episode 2, the teens decided to do right by Jackie and finally, after two months of mourning, burn her body.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 31 Mar. 2023
• Khan’s recipes can be elaborate (and well worth the effort), such as a mourning pulao that loops together life and death.
  — Meher Mirza, Vogue, 5 Dec. 2023
• Until a night of partying went horribly wrong and set a course for a lifetime of mourning.
  — al, 19 Jan. 2023
• Everyone is still in mourning, each and every one of us has lost someone, or knows someone who has.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 27 Oct. 2023
• Twenty years later Natalia decides to search for the truth to end the frozen state of mourning that her family has been stuck in ever since.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 8 Aug. 2023
• Due to the mourning period surrounding Queen Elizabeth's death, the event did not take place.
  — Town & Country, 1 July 2023
• The shiva mourning period will then begin at his Bronx home.
  — Cbs New York Team, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2024
• Kiper announced that a day of mourning in Odesa would be held today -- the second such observance in less than two weeks.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Mar. 2024
• The bitter pilgrimage by Grets had less to do with religion than with mourning, and many others made the same trip on Sunday.
  — Hanna Arhirova and Lori Hinnant, Chicago Tribune, 25 July 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024