bereavement

[ UK /bɪɹˈiːvmənt/ ]
[ US /bɝˈivmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
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How To Use bereavement In A Sentence

  • New members are always welcome, irrespective of what stage of bereavement they are at.
  • She has recently suffered a bereavement.
  • Grief is a powerful feeling, bereavement is as natural a life process as the passing of the seasons. Times, Sunday Times
  • Debut novelists will make up nearly half of the Orange prize for fiction longlist, which this year tackles strikingly difficult subjects: incest, sadistic cruelty, polygamy, child bereavement, hermaphroditism and mental illness. Orange prize longlist tackles difficult subjects – and alligators
  • Share your feelings with a bereavement counsellor. The Sun
  • To do so would, but unchristianize the deep grief which bereavement awakens, and which true piety sanctifies; it would unhumanize the very constitution of home itself. The Christian Home
  • I am no bereavement counsellor, but in the last few months, I have learned a lot about ‘coping’ after my mother passed away.
  • Crying is now seen as a normal male reaction to anything from bereavement to loneliness to a moving scene on television.
  • Most will have relatively mild symptoms linked to underlying problems such as work and relationship difficulties, financial troubles, physical illness or bereavement. Times, Sunday Times
  • Death was placed alongside the other kinds of bereavement that we were likely to experience in the normal life cycle. Why am I Afraid to Grieve
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