How To Use Grief-stricken In A Sentence

  • A drunken, grief-stricken sailor is the only member of the medical staff on board who can possibly perform a delicate life-saving operation on the officer.
  • Churches in the grief-stricken communities of Camblesforth and Strensall will open their doors tomorrow to offer spiritual support for villagers.
  • And he was asking it of the grief-stricken mother who was about to lose her only daughter. Steve Young: Demanding Compassion (This Morning's Philadelphia Inquirer)
  • As the ceremony unfolded, grief-stricken relatives clung to each other for support inside a specially erected marquee.
  • The diplomats will be on hand to offer their condolences and reassurances to the grief-stricken nurses.
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  • Yet Kwaque bore no grudge against Michael, and was himself so interested in his lord's welfare and comfort -- this lord who had saved his life that terrible day on King William Island from the two grief-stricken pig-owners -- that he cherished Michael for his lord's sake. CHAPTER V
  • Throughout the day, grief-stricken fellow pupils laid flowers at the main entrance of the school with many breaking down in tears.
  • Her grief-stricken sisters tried to help her but she was inconsolable.
  • The griever is expected, after missing a few days of work, to act normal, to show no emotion that may be seen as sad, maudlin, angry, or grief-stricken. Society and Death « Colleen Anderson
  • As he looked back at her, rough-coated and grief-stricken, he could see Terrence hovering solicitously near her. Chapter 1
  • Yesterday, her grief-stricken parents said their last goodbye to their daughter at her funeral in Cootehhill.
  • The grief-stricken widow refused to leave her dead husband's side.
  • The Queen was grief-stricken over his death.
  • The weak tears of age rolled down his cheeks, and all the feebleness of his eighty-seven years showed in his grief-stricken countenance. Page 6
  • The film, despite dealing with a tremendously sorrowful subject, offers more than heavy-hearted investigation of the world's most grief-stricken areas.
  • A clock on the wall takes on symbolic meaning: It signalises the passing of time and human life to which the grandfather returns as a ghost to bid goodbye to his grief-stricken grandson.
  • His grief-stricken widow destroyed all his cricket clothes and equipment.
  • ‘He died the way he lived - having fun,’ said his grief-stricken mother, Caroline.
  • In Poland, where the moth was called the wandering death-bird, its cries were likened to those of a grief-stricken child. Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
  • The author imagines Titania, the fairy queen of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," as the grief-stricken fairy mother of an adopted human child who has died. Cheeshahteaumauk, Class of '65 (1665)
  • Her grief-stricken father ordered his subjects to depart, returning only when they'd found his daughter.
  • The grief-stricken parents of a schoolboy found hanged in his bedroom insisted yesterday he had not been the victim of bullying.
  • They were sad, of course, but not grief-stricken.
  • His mother and brother look on, grief-stricken.
  • But the person who's really staring a hole through Bennett is Rosie's grief-stricken father. Mega Buzz: A CSI: Miami Romance, Grey's Babies and Criminal Minds' Cliff-Hanger
  • Mr and Mrs Key are said to be grief-stricken and still undergoing therapy after the loss of their baby sons.
  • Many elegists question whether they have the strength to accomplish their purpose, often calling for help from the muses or from a sympathetically grief-stricken nature.
  • Afterwards he talked to the young man's grief-stricken father.
  • These holiday season signs seem eerily out of place in this grief-stricken city.
  • In these post-tsunami times, with nonstop images of tiny outstretched hands and grief-stricken eyes on the television, most of us feel a yearning to do something to help.
  • No one was more grief-stricken by Lincoln's assassination than Stanton, who spoke the imperishable words as the president breathed his last: ‘Now he belongs to the ages.’
  • The victim's grief-stricken aunt said other teenagers should take heed of the accident and not treat trial bikes as toys.
  • A grief-stricken widow took her own life six months after the death of her husband - and just days after she had been sent home from her job of 20 years.
  • The people we've got to be really mindful of are Father Cheney and his parishioners because they're what I call grief-stricken you know, they have worked for years and years and years for this project to happen and we were on the cusp as they say for it to happen," said Bishop Boland. News for WSAV
  • As the thunder continued to rumble overhead, grief-stricken residents wiped tears from their eyes as they stood to read the many messages of condolence.
  • She was a woman of great courage and she will long be remembered by her grief-stricken family and also the many people whose lives she touched down the years.
  • That was all, and an entire ship's company stared down in silence and fear at a sea-monster grief-stricken over its dying progeny. CHAPTER XV
  • Her grief-stricken sisters tried to help her but she was inconsolable.
  • But shortly after their honeymoon Dorothy died and Berlin, grief-stricken, went to Europe.
  • The queen was grief-stricken at his death.
  • This willed nearness to conscious and unconscious life of her fiction — such that her first literary foray is a story about making a new life and her subsequent fictions sustain a bare minimum of grief-stricken life — can be construed as a phantasy that sustains her work of un/mourning. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
  • As grief-stricken parents, they had been a letdown. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now all reason up seems meaningless to him: a feeling not odd to a grief-stricken, nonetheless here related to a dignified dried which Macbeth has combined as his middle landscape. Archive 2009-11-01
  • We laid Ron to rest in Arlington National Cemetery; by then I was so exhausted and grief-stricken after the terrible ordeal that I could hardly stand.
  • And his grief-stricken son-in-law, Robert Carroll said he was a man of conviction who was loved and respected by those closest to him.
  • My father was grief-stricken and couldn't cope, so I was passed around aunts and uncles for a few years.
  • Russell Crowe stars as a grief-stricken avenger on the trail of his family's killers.
  • The grief-stricken widow refused to leave her dead husband's side.
  • Hundreds of people went to the cemetery as news of the onslaught spread, and grief-stricken relatives were still turning up 24 hours later.
  • The secrets of their marvellous discoveries died with Paul and Lloyd, both laboratories being destroyed by grief-stricken relatives. Moon Face:The Shadow and the Flash
  • The couple were left grief-stricken after the tragedy which claimed the life of their son and his best friend.

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