have sorrowed
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present perfectof sorrow.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
sorrownoundistress caused by loss, affliction, disappointment, etc.; grief, sadness, or regret.
Example Sentences
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After his Brother Arnaldo died, he wrote: "For his death I have sorrowed and shall sorrow for long; like the mutilations of the body, those of the soul are irreparable."
From Time Magazine Archive
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I would have sorrowed as others, rejoiced as others.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
And, since I have found that it has not been so, I have sorrowed for you also.
From The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
I have sorrowed a thousand times that ever we lost the booke that Brutus writ of Vertue.
From Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian by Various
I love you with my whole heart, because I have sorrowed for you--so long.
From Magda A Play in Four Acts by Hermann Sudermann