Example Sentences

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Residents had been mourning family members, neighbors and friends who died in the Feb. 15 landslide.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2022

“Short story: alive,” he told a stunned and furious Watson, who had been mourning his friend’s death for two years.

From New York Times • Dec. 23, 2016

The day Michael Brown was killed, Elzie, who had been mourning the death of her mother, went down to Canfield Green, a housing complex near where Brown was shot, to pay her respects.

From New York Times • May 4, 2015

He had been mourning her throughout the trip.

From Time Magazine Archive

The features seemed familiar to me; little by little recognition came to me, and I saw it was Willy Gum, whom every one had been mourning as dead.

From Elster's Folly by Wood, Henry, Mrs.