MOURNING in a Sentence

mourning

 n.  expression of deep sorrow because someone has died

1  Scarlett stood on the lower step of the train, a pale pretty figure in her black mourning dress, her crepe veil fluttering almost to her heels.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII

2  That is everybody except her and Pittypat and Melly and the other unfortunates in town who were in mourning.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

3  Just a little over a year ago, she was dancing and wearing bright clothes instead of this dark mourning and was practically engaged to three boys.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

4  The idea of appearing publicly at a social gathering while in mourning was so unheard of she was bewildered.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

5  And to think I'll never wear that color again, not even when I do get out of mourning.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

6  Probably telling him she was in mourning and it was impossible for her to appear on the floor.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX

7  I will pass over the impropriety of your appearing publicly while in mourning, realizing your warm desire to be of assistance to the hospital.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X

8  Frequently Rhett pointed out to Scarlett the inconsistency of her wearing black mourning clothes when she was participating in all social activities.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII

9  But not to change to a mourning bonnet.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII

10  She was busy with needle and scissors, altering a mourning dress that Mrs. Elsing had lent to Mrs. Meade.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV

11  It was Melanie's black mourning bonnet and it did not fit Scarlett's head but she could not recall where she had put her own bonnet.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

12  All three wore home-dyed mourning, all were worn, sad, worried, all bitter with a bitterness that did not sulk or complain but, nevertheless, peered out from behind their smiles and their words of welcome.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

13  I'm still mourning my mother, said Scarlett hastily.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV

14  She was uncomfortable in the tight black dress she had borrowed from Mrs. Meade, for she had had no time to get mourning clothes for herself.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX

15  She buttoned her black basque up to the chin and pinned down the collar with Pittypat's mourning brooch.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII

1  This cypress is tall and thin, and its branches used as a symbol of mourning.

2  This hilarity is improper on this solemn day of mourning.

3  Russia is holding two days of national mourning for more than 330 people killed in the hostage-taking at a school in the southern town of Beslan.

4  He was in deep mourning for his dead wife.

5  The color black is traditionally associated with mourning.

6  She mourned her dead child for many years.

7  The couple mourned for their dead child.

8  The entire nation mourned her death.

9  The manager announced his resignation and everybody mourned.

10  The dog looked mournfully after its owner.

11  The gale still rising, seemed to my ear to muffle a mournful under-sound; whether in the house or abroad I could not at first tell, but it recurred, doubtful yet doleful at every lull; at last I made out it must be some dog howling at a distance.

12  The stranger, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge.

13  He gazed round the table; he saw they were all waiting for his explanation, and his expression grew mournful.

14  He'd got all that coat of arms business fixed, so now he started in to finish up the rest of that part of the work, which was to plan out a mournful inscription -- said Jim got to have one, like they all done.

15  To mourn a mischief that is past and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on.