Example Sentences
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Grieving often prompts frantic spelunking missions—rereading old letters or texts, scouring your camera roll and random social media accounts for any scrap of a memory of your loved one.
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026
Grieving is also time to get angry and justified in your own insane behavior.
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026
Grieving parents who’d camped out in court hallways for more than a week to hear the California decision cheered and embraced as they watched the New Mexico verdict over live-stream.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
Grieving mother Lee Hyo-eun returns every weekend to the airport where her daughter and 178 others died last year, desperate for the truth about South Korea's deadliest airline disaster.
From Barron's • Dec. 23, 2025
Grieving in their dugout that night, someone started to sing a folk song.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
