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sorrowing

ADJECTIVE
  1. sorrowful through loss or deprivation
    bereft of hope

How To Use sorrowing In A Sentence

  • It is no shame for me," said Credhe, "I to die for grief after Cael, since the stag is shortening his life sorrowing after the hind. Gods and Fighting Men
  • Not to dally longer with the sympathies of our readers, we think it right to premonish them that we are composing an epicedium upon no less distinguished a personage than the Lottery, whose last breath, after many penultimate puffs, has been sobbed forth by sorrowing contractors, as if the world itself were about to be converted into a blank. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
  • She told about a woman in her grief counseling group, who was also sorrowing over the loss of a child.
  • If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some, for the that goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing. 
  • He will be sadly missed and deeply mourned by his sorrowing family.
  • Health, strength, agility, and animal spirits, she may sorrowing feel diminish; but she hears everyone complain of similar failures, and she misses them unmurmuring, though not unlamenting; but of beauty, every declension is marked with something painful to self-love. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • Knowing all this, the Babu asked the Brahman point-blank to perform a false samadhi, that is to say, to feign an inspiration and to announce to the sorrowing mother that her late son's will had acted consciously in all the circumstances; that he brought about his end in the body of the flying fox, that he was tired of that grade of transmigration, that he longed for death in order to attain a higher position in the animal kingdom, that he is happy, and that he is deeply indebted to the sahib who broke his neck and so freed him from his abject embodiment. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
  • Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.
  • Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing onward through life we go.
  • Maybe it won't, if in their grief Americans make common cause with other sorrowing humans.
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