grieve - use in sentences

Object

  • spirit: It seemed a fearful thing to hinder or grieve the Spirit.

Modifying Another Word

  • greatly: When King Henry II died Richard was greatly grieved at his father's death.

Object

  • mother: His grieving mother had given birth to him in a chamber draped with black mourning.
  • father: The grieving father becomes obsessed with uncovering the mystery of the newspaper.
  • family: SIDS Families - Support for grieving families who have lost a child to SIDS.

Preposition: at

  • funeral: Malisevo - Relatives grieve at the funeral of four Kosovo Liberation Army ( KLA ) fighters killed during fighting in Sverke and Dus.

Modifying Another Word

  • deeply: I grieve deeply, Her pains are now mine.
  • properly: Some may not have the opportunity to grieve properly.
  • much: You won't much grieve over our leaving this house, shall you, dear mother?

Followed by an intransitive particle

  • over: Margot doesn't want them to grieve over her passing.

Used with why or when

  • when: I just take it as it comes and don't grieve when it has gone.

Preposition: in

  • peace: I hope now it is over, they will be allowed to grieve in peace.

Preposition: for

  • loss: We also grieve for the loss of civilian life in Iraq.

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