- present participle of mourn.
mourning
Example Sentences
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The “Love Island USA” production team is mourning the loss of executive producer James Barker, who died last week while on set in Fiji.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2026
In Hamirpur district in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh, the family of 23-year-old Aditya Sharma is mourning the loss of their only son.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
Before mourning could begin, German had to pass through what he called “the thousand darknesses of death-bringing speech.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
The family of the ship's captain, Ashish Kumar Singh, 38, from the eastern state of Bihar, is mourning his death.
From Barron's • May 25, 2026
The house he had planned to spend a night in, that of his friend Admetus, a king in Thessaly, was a place of deep mourning when he came to it although he did not know.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
Vocabulary lists containing mourning
"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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"Julius Caesar" by William Shakespeare, Act III
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