English example sentences with "grief"

Learn how to use grief in a English sentence. Over 100 hand-picked examples.

Crying is an expression of grief.

To weep is to make less the depth of grief.

The woman's face was marked with grief.

The orphan wept with grief over his misfortune.

Nicole was beside herself with grief when she heard the news.

However, Beth seems to be indifferent to Chris's grief.

This will bring you to grief.

She went nearly mad with grief after the child died.

Joy and grief alternate in my breast.

As time goes on, grief fades away.

Time and thinking tame the strongest grief.

On the wings of Time grief flies away.

Time tames the strongest grief.

The girl was overcome with grief.

She was beside herself with grief at the news of her son's accident.

No one really understands the grief or joy of another.

When his wife heard of his violent death, she was beside herself with grief.

His talk distracted her from grief.

He was in deep grief at the death of his wife.

He was beside himself with grief.

He abandoned himself to grief.

Her grief expressed itself in tears.

Her grief was too acute for tears.

He was the agent of her grief.

She took pains to help the child overcome his grief.

She tried to conceal her grief at the party.

She was filled with grief at the news of her sister's death.

She abandoned herself to grief.

She was distracted by grief.

She is dying of grief.

She was filled with deep grief to hear of her father's sudden death.

She bore her grief with dry eyes.

In her grief, she burst into tears.

His heart was pierced with grief.

She was beside herself with grief.

Grief has silvered her hair.

Grief drove her mad.

Good grief! I had no idea you had been placed in such a tight spot.

It was to say that going to the station was too much of a bother after all so I should come to the hotel she's staying at. Good grief, what a selfish woman!

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

You think that people are okay, but I allow one to think that people and all societies are bad. No one wants other people to tolerate their mischief. People give grief to people because their viewpoints vary.

The girl was struck with grief.

Republicans and Democrats, Christians, Atheists, Muslims and all other faiths, Americans and Immigrants, everyone was united in grief for the devastation of 9/11.

Grief on the face is better than the stain in the heart.

She seemed to be wallowing in her grief instead of trying to recover from the disaster.

Grief is one of the worst forms of suffering.

War doesn't bring peace; on the contrary, it brings pains and grief on both sides.

The passing autumn fills me with a feeling of grief.

Notice the difference between a sigh of relief and a sigh of grief.

I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind. For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

The first victim was one of my best friends and his loss caused me a great deal of grief; the second victim was merely a German.

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart, and bids it break.

When his wife died he was full of heartrending grief.

Remember that boys who insist on having their own way, sooner or later come to grief.

Boys who do not listen to their elders always come to grief.

Eat bread, drink water, you shall leave without grief.

He hid his grief behind a smile.

Patience is a remedy for every grief.

If you wish me to weep, you yourself must first feel grief.

A funeral is a pageant whereby we attest our respect for the dead by enriching the undertaker, and strengthen our grief by an expenditure that deepens our groans and doubles our tears.

Tom never gave me any grief.

She gave vent to her grief.

The Australian nation is in shock and grief today following the tragic death of one of its favourite young cricketers while playing cricket.

Tom said that no words could adequately describe his feelings of devastation and grief on losing his best friend.

Grief is not linear or predictable.

Don't weep, little Vasilissa. Grief is worst at night. Lie down, shut thine eyes, comfort thyself and go to sleep. The morning is wiser than the evening.

There, my little doll, take it. Eat a little, drink a little, and listen to my grief. I live in my father's house, but my spiteful stepmother wishes to drive me out of the white world. Tell me! How shall I act, and what shall I do?

I share your grief.

What secret grief is troubling you?

Good grief!

A motorcyclist came to grief when he failed to take a sweeping bend in the road.

Are you telling me that Luke is creating problems again? Good grief.

You cannot put time limits on grief.

Everybody deals with grief differently.

Oh, my tongue! You have been always my support in grief and joy, understood and cherished fondly, since I was a little boy.

I hope that incident won't cause you any grief when you try to leave the country.

Friendship redoubles joy and cuts grief in half.

First of all, our hearts go out to the families of those who have been killed. Our prayers go to those who have been wounded. This is a devastating attack on all Americans. It is one that is particularly painful for the people of Orlando, but I think we all recognize that this could have happened anywhere in this country. And we feel enormous solidarity and grief on behalf of the families that have been affected.

In all of our efforts, foremost in our minds is the loss and the grief of the people of Orlando—those who died, those who are still recovering, the families who have seen their loved ones harmed, the friends of ours who are lesbian and gay and bisexual and transgender who were targeted. I want to remind them that they are not alone. The American people, and our allies and friends all over the world, stand with you and are thinking about you, and are praying for you.

Even in Tom's funniest skits, there is a note of grief.

Happiness does not await us all. One needn't be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

They pined with grief and felt a longing which they could not describe.

Thus did Daphnis vent his grief, till at last weary with weeping and lamenting he fell into a deep sleep.

Having beheld this vision and heard these words Daphnis sprang up, and, with his eyes full of tears, partly of grief and partly of delight, he paid his adorations to the Nymphs, and vowed that upon Chloe's safe return he would sacrifice the best she-goat of his herd to the protecting Deities.

Chloe, as soon as she knew of what was passing, was overcome with grief; but she concealed the cause from Daphnis lest she might give him pain.

On hearing this, Daphnis, almost beside himself, sat down and wept bitterly, exclaiming that he should die if he were deprived of Chloe as a companion in the pastures; and that her sheep also would die of grief at the loss of such a mistress.

Trust the man who is aware of three things about you: the grief behind your smile, the love behind your anger, and the reason for your silence.

Her grief at this news was excessive.

Sami recovered from the grief.

She is filled with grief.

I'm sorry for your grief.

Please don't give me grief.

Sami was torn between grief and anger.

Sami was overwhelmed by grief.

He spake, and heart-sick with a load of care, / suppressed his grief, and feigned a cheerful air.

"And now already from the heaven's high steep / the dewy night wheels down, and sinking slow, / the stars are gently wooing us to sleep. / But, if thy longing be so great to know / the tale of Troy's last agony and woe, / the toils we suffered, though my heart doth ache, / and grief would fain the memory forego / of scenes so sad, yet, Lady, for thy sake / I will begin," and thus the sire of Troy outspake:

Oh, who hath tears to match our grief withal? / What tongue that night of havoc can make known?

"O son, what mean / these transports? Say, what bitter grief doth move / thy soul to rage untamed? Where vanished is thy love?"

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

In sweet music is such art, killing care and grief of heart.

I was overwhelmed by grief.

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