Examples of grieve in a Sentence
Jim Halterman, Variety, 9 Apr. 2024
Please give me and my family space to grieve privately and uglily at this time.
—Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2024
At a parent-teacher conference, condolences are delivered to Toni, but the camera rests on the bereaved Dita’s face, unable to openly grieve the loss of her longtime partner.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Highlandtown resident Xochitl Lopez, a 52-year-old from Monterrey, Mexico, has also helped with organizing free support groups with Centro SOL for people to grieve, regardless of immigration status.
—USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2024
Gray runs a luxury car service out of New Orleans, but business is bad, what with rideshare companies, New Orleans’ economy and the fact that Gray is still deeply grieving his son (Caleb Baumann’s Maddox), who was shot and killed under mysterious circumstances eight months earlier.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Mar. 2024
Now Barnett’s grieving family is writing the next chapter in the battle waged by the Louisiana maverick who’s arguably the most famous and credible whistleblower to challenge this fabled manufacturer.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2024
Fighting back tears, McEntire offered the grieving father a bit of advice.
—Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 27 Mar. 2024
The process of doing this as a group before your mother’s death would be very different than after her passing – when you will be stressed and grieving.
—Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2024
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Word History
Middle English greven, from Anglo-French grever, from Latin gravare to burden, from gravis heavy, grave; akin to Greek barys heavy, Sanskrit guru
13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1
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Kids Definition
Middle English greven "to distress, grieve," from early French grever (same meaning), from Latin gravare "to burden," from gravis "heavy, serious" — related to aggravate, grave entry 3, gravity
Medical Definition
grieve
verbEric Schlosser, The Atlantic MonthlyVirginia Hughes, Scientific American
Legal Definition
grieve
verbM. A. KellyJackson v. Liquid Carbonic Corp., 863 F.2d 111 (1988)
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