Example Sentences

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“We are a first-world country, and speaking as a physician that knows this can be prevented, it grieves me,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

Heaney grieves the violence, memorializing its complexity and horror in a poem that can stand with Yeats and Auden.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

He said the whole town "still grieves greatly".

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

More than that, though, he continued, music is Gretchen’s “philosophy” as she grieves her mother and her most reliable “weapon” against the cuckoo people, whose shrill call notably juxtaposes Gretchen’s low-toned theme.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 13, 2024

It grieves me to think that I have brought shame to the place that has sheltered me, that by my unwitting deeds, St. Emilion might be ruined.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein