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How to use mourner in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Mourner means someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns. Example: “Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage.”

Examples of mourner by meaning

nounSomeone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.

  • I stood close to heartsick mourners and worried that I would not sustain the enormousness of their spiritual weight.2024 September 17, Lauren DePino, “I Sang at Hundreds of Funerals. This Is What I Learned About Grief.”, in The New York Times Magazine

More sentences with mourner

  • Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage.From the entry funeral
  • The mourners listened as the priest performed the burial service of long-time parishioner Wendy Stuart.From the entry burial
  • The mourners paid their last respects to the deceased poet.From the entry respect
  • The mourners left the funeral heavy-hearted and silent.From the entry heavy-hearted
  • 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
  • If a mourner is either Taoist or Buddhist they may hold a burning joss stick while bowing.2016, Kelly Jackson-Nash, CultureShock! Singapore, page [unpaginated]. From the entry paper money
  • Mourners fell ill Sunday in Baishui, a rural county northwest of the provincial capital, Xi’an.1998 November 6, “China Food Poisoning Strikes 260”, in AP News, archived from the original on 07 Apr 2023. From the entry Baishui
  • Sister's of Mercy, Sister Angela Moroney and Sister Margareta Cunningham, both 86, were amongst those mourners gathered for the midday service.2025 April 21, Matthew Lodge, Eirian Jane Prosser, “King Charles pays tribute to Pope Francis after his death aged 88: His Majesty joins…. From the entry Margareta
  • As mourners cannot attend synagogue during shiva, a minyan gathers for morning, afternoon, and evening services in their home.2010, Ari Goldman, Living a Year of Kaddish: A Memoir, page 27. From the entry minyan
  • The flood had started early that morning, tapering off as the mourners gathered at the gravesite before the bottom fell out again.2026, Amie Louellen, Southern Nights: 2 Contemporary Romances. From the entry bottom falls out
  • A video with graphic scenes of false explosions, depicting corp-, corpses, crisis actors pretending to be mourners and images of destroyed locations or military equipment.2022 February 3, 0:44 from the start, in State Department Spokesperson Holds Briefing (television production), spoken by self (Ned Price)…. From the entry crisis actor
  • Juan Diego hadn’t noticed the other people in the temple, except for what appeared to be two mourners; they knelt in the foremost pew.2015, John Irving, chapter 7, in Avenue of Mysteries, London: Doubleday, page 70. From the entry foremost
  • Baby Adam cried a good deal at the beginning of the wake, for the mourners, not knowing about babies, had neglected to feed him.1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, London: Heinemann, Part One, Chapter 3, I, p. 11. From the entry dipping
  • Hu’s grave in Gongqingcheng in Jiangxi province, about a thousand mourners paid their respects Monday morning alone, said a tour guide, Tong Lihong, according to the China News Service.2013 April 16, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “Cautious Call for Political Reform in China”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry Gongqingcheng
  • Indeed, in Rashi’s reading, the liturgy of mourning that the kaddish accompanied was itself not construed as an expression of mourning, even if it was expressed by mourners.1998, Leon Wieseltier, Kaddish, Knopf, →ISBN, page 54, →ISBN. From the entry unlachrymose
  • That night I was escorted to the front row and placed on the mourners' bench with all the other young sinners, who had not yet been brought to Jesus.1940, Langston Hughes, Salvation. From the entry mourners' bench
  • But what annoyed Fred was having the christening of his son in the very best church in town spoiled by the attendance of any revivalists of the mourners’ bench sort.1958, William Humphrey, Home From The Hill. From the entry mourners' bench

Meaning of mourner

  1. noun Someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.
  2. noun A person attending a funeral or otherwise participating in rituals related to bereavement.
  3. noun In certain cultures, a person hired to participate in funerary rituals, sometimes by making a conspicuous and/or conventional show of grief; hired mourner.

Full definition of mourner

Questions about mourner in a sentence

How do you use mourner in a sentence?
Mourner is used as a noun. For example: “Many mourners turned up at the local artist's funeral to pay homage.”
What is a short sentence with mourner?
“The mourners left the funeral heavy-hearted and silent.”
What does mourner mean?
Mourner means someone filled with or expressing grief or sadness, especially over a death; someone who mourns.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mourner (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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