GRIEF in a Sentence

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245 example sentences for GRIEF, such as:

1. My tears, my grief it can only prove.
2. Tears are the silent language of grief.
3. The wife wept out her grief to her husband.
4. She did not show her grief when her son died.
5. Love, hate, joy, fear and grief are emotions.

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 Meanings and Examples of GRIEF
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
grief
 n.  pain of mind; mental suffering arising from any cause, as misfortune, loss of friends
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  For my own part, I begin to love him as a brother, and his constant and deep grief fills me with sympathy and compassion.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
2  As he said this his countenance became expressive of a calm, settled grief that touched me to the heart.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
3  You may easily imagine that I was much gratified by the offered communication, yet I could not endure that he should renew his grief by a recital of his misfortunes.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
4  These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
5  She indeed veiled her grief and strove to act the comforter to us all.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
6  But I was not the witness of his grief, for I was lifeless and did not recover my senses for a long, long time.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  When my dearest aunt died every one was too much occupied in their own grief to notice poor Justine, who had attended her during her illness with the most anxious affection.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
8  Yet, as I drew nearer home, grief and fear again overcame me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
9  From the tortures of my own heart, I turned to contemplate the deep and voiceless grief of my Elizabeth.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
10  They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillized it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
11  I saw, with surprise and grief, the leaves decay and fall, and nature again assume the barren and bleak appearance it had worn when I first beheld the woods and the lovely moon.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
12  My journey had been my own suggestion, and Elizabeth therefore acquiesced, but she was filled with disquiet at the idea of my suffering, away from her, the inroads of misery and grief.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 18
13  The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
14  The deep grief which this scene had at first excited quickly gave way to rage and despair.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
15  When he heard the sound of my approach, he ceased to utter exclamations of grief and horror and sprung towards the window.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  Love, hate, joy, fear and grief are emotions.
17  The wife wept out her grief to her husband.
18  But others in the professional psychological field regard the institution as an effective and important way of dealing with grief.
19  Tears are the silent language of grief.
20  No matter how bad your heart has been broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.
21  The media was criticized for its thoughtless incursion into the domestic grief of the family.
22  She went nearly mad with grief after the child died.
23  Nothing can prepare you for the shock and grief of widowhood.
24  I felt awkward at intruding on their private grief.
25  My tears, my grief it can only prove.
26  Several pedestrians had come to grief on the icy pavement.
27  She did not show her grief when her son died.
28  She was too proud to show her grief in public.
29  I deeply resented those sort of rumours being circulated at a time of deeply personal grief.
30  Trying to follow their directions was nothing but grief.