GRIEF in a Sentence
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245 example sentences for GRIEF, such as:
1. His voice was husky with grief.
2. The only cure for grief is action.
3. His behavior was a grief to his mother.
4. I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
5. Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
2. The only cure for grief is action.
3. His behavior was a grief to his mother.
4. I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
5. Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
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Meanings and Examples of GRIEF
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grief
n. something that causes great unhappiness
n. intense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
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.
2 As he said this his countenance became expressive of a calm, settled grief that touched me to the heart.
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.
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.
5 She indeed veiled her grief and strove to act the comforter to us all.
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.
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.
8 Yet, as I drew nearer home, grief and fear again overcame me.
9 From the tortures of my own heart, I turned to contemplate the deep and voiceless grief of my Elizabeth.
10 They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillized it.
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.
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.
13 The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.
14 The deep grief which this scene had at first excited quickly gave way to rage and despair.
15 When he heard the sound of my approach, he ceased to utter exclamations of grief and horror and sprung towards the window.
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1 The only cure for grief is action.
2 Don't allow yourself to sink into grief; it can do no good.
3 The grief she felt over Helen's death was almost unbearable.
4 Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.
5 Friends will see you are putting on a brave face and might assume you've got over your grief.
6 Through the total fading away and extinction of craving, decay and death, sorrow, lamentation, suffering, grief, and despair are extinguished.
7 His voice was husky with grief.
8 He gave way to hopeless grief as soon as he heard the bad message.
9 He who talks much of his happiness summons grief.
10 Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief.
11 His behavior was a grief to his mother.
12 I tell you hopeless grief is passionless.
13 The young mother was prostrate with grief at her baby's death from pneumonia.
14 Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
15 To have money is a fear, not to have it a grief.