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How to use grieve in a sentence

30 example sentences · verb, noun

Grieve means to cause sorrow or distress to. Example: “She was at a loss for words when she saw the number of people who had come to grieve for her husband.”

Examples of grieve by meaning

verbTo feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.

  • to grieve one's fate

More sentences with grieve

  • She was at a loss for words when she saw the number of people who had come to grieve for her husband.From the entry at a loss for words
  • The grieving mother who lost her daughter in an accident told the drunk driver "It's too late for sorry!" after he tried to apologize.From the entry it's too late for sorry
  • Let us be, to grieve, rage, weep; say the mourners' kaddish.2023 October 14, Simon Schama, “Let us be, to grieve, rage, weep; say the mourners’ kaddish”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times…. From the entry kaddish
  • How did she endure the pain and grieving of the assassination?2018 February 21, Jessica Iredale, “Moschino RTW Fall 2018”, in Women’s Wear Daily. From the entry haute
  • God was deeply grieved and there was no one to un-grieve Him quickly enough.2012, Dr. Joseph Luxum, War in a Bottle. From the entry un-grieve
  • So why am I grieving over someone who doesn't even give a freak about me?2011 February 9, Silianise Moise, Life Is Not a Fairy Tale, but . . ., Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 145. From the entry freak
  • A babbie robbed of her mam and da and two sets of families grieving.2010, Rita Bradshaw, Forever Yours. From the entry babbie
  • Help minor and grown biokids grieve (normal) fantasies and dreams of bioparent and birthfamily reunions.2001, Peter K. Gerlach, Build a High-nurturance Stepfamily: A Guidebook for Co-parents (a Divorce-Prevention Series; volume 4), Xlibris…. From the entry biokid
  • But what followed for Lozano, his grieving family claims, was a death spiral into infantilism and madness.1992 April 13, Anastasia Toufexis, Hannah Bloch, “Did His Doctor Love Him to Death?”, in Time, archived from the original on 21 Sep 2011. From the entry death spiral
  • The nightingale's sorrow that ends with the light Brings, grieved, no love nearer, alas, to the sight.1961, Raymond Ellsworth Larsson, Book Like a Bow Curved. From the entry yester-morrow
  • "Barbara, what I have to confess will amaze and grieve you," began Lucinda, with grave tenderness.1940, Zane Grey, chapter 12, in 30,000 on the Hoof, Roslyn, N.Y.: Walter J. Black, →OCLC, page 193. From the entry take
  • She was grieved, and bitterly sorry for the man who was hurt so much.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter V, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry heart of hearts
  • No, I shall not disgrace the Cause, I shall not grieve my comrades by weak surrender!1912, Alexander Berkman, chapter 17, in Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist. From the entry daunt
  • It's hard and it's unfair, I know – and when we're still grieving or having a 'griefy' moment, it's even harder.2016, Jody Day, Living the Life Unexpected, page 128. From the entry griefy
  • Beyond grieving and loss of the partner, the spousally bereaved are faced with a set of challenges and alternative paths.1996, Vern L. Bengtson, Adulthood and Aging: Research on Continuities and Discontinuities. From the entry spousally
  • The detectives were still wrapped in sullenness, remembering the grieving woman and a lead that had led nowhere.1970, Wally Ferris, Across 110th, page 176. From the entry sullenness
  • Who is there of mine goes to this war that I should grieve for his wounding or look for his return?1911, Mary Hunter Austin, The Arrow Maker. From the entry wounding
  • I am only grieved to see you looking wobegone.1907, Robert Fraser, Three Men and a Maid. From the entry wobegone
  • Magallanes upon obtaining information of this was sorely grieved.1903–1909, “Extracto de una carta (Extract of a letter from the Indies)”, in Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, editors, The…. From the entry information
  • The grieving family is now demanding change, citing a “lack of visible or effective security” on the Charlotte Area Transportation System Blue Line.2025 September 10, Holly Yan, Jeff Winter, “Suspect in Charlotte train stabbing that killed a Ukrainian refugee is charged with a federal…. From the entry cats
  • He’d spoken in Italian to the woman at the door—the same words of condolence that the Scarlattas had used when visiting their grieving neighbors.2015, Leslie Parry, Church of Marvels, Two Roads, →ISBN. From the entry torta
  • Recently widowed and still grieving over the loss of her husband, his mother had been an easy mark for a scumball like Jacob.2006, Peggy Moreland, The Texan's Convenient Marriage, Harlequin, →ISBN, pages 33–34. From the entry scumball
  • Grieving apparently wasn't a full-time job, however, since Hank up and married a gal named Billie Jean and daddied a daughter by yet another consoler.1997, Larry L. King, True Facts, Tall Tales, and Pure Fiction, →ISBN. From the entry consoler
  • This, I divined, was Bob Carr’s prehumous bedside manner, his own private system of glad tidings when visiting the doomed, or their grieving widows.1997, Bob Ellis, Goodbye Jerusalem: Night Thoughts of a Labor Outsider, Vintage Books, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry prehumous
  • Once the patient has worked through the stage of grieving at diagnosis, adjustment may be successful as therapy is begun and a prognosis is determined.1986, Constance S. Kirkpatrick, Nurses’ Guide to Cancer Care, Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry prognosis
  • MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle ponders the implications: do griefbots offer a new death ritual or avoid the grieving process by pretending the dead are still with us?2024 June 25, Cath Clarke, “Eternal You review – death, download and digital afterlife in the age of the AI griefbot”, in The Guardian…. From the entry griefbot
  • Then time shall never grieve me, for by that vow, E'en absent I enjoy her, assuredly confirmed that none Else shall, which will make tedious years seem gameful To me.2014, Thomas Middleton, Alan Brissenden, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside. From the entry gameful
  • If you did not let yourself have a time to grieve, you would cripple the sadness and loss within you, stifling the natural healing and your ability to progressively repair.2012, Lisa Cypers Kamen, Harvesting Happiness for Heroes. From the entry pick oneself up off the floor
  • Your winter scarce intended to forebring The gift of days I grieve To part from, but only summer sadness Attends your briefer Spring. — to vex my year of gladness.1918, Ivan Swift, The blue crane: and shore songs. From the entry forebring

Meaning of grieve

  1. verb To cause sorrow or distress to.
  2. verb To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
  3. verb To experience grief.

Full definition of grieve

Questions about grieve in a sentence

How do you use grieve in a sentence?
Grieve is used as a verb and noun. For example: “She was at a loss for words when she saw the number of people who had come to grieve for her husband.”
What is a short sentence with grieve?
“to grieve one's fate”
What does grieve mean?
Grieve means to cause sorrow or distress to.

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