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Example sentences for "grieving"

Lexicographically close words:
grievances; grieve; grieved; grieves; grieveth; grievous; grievously; grievousness; griffe; griffin
  1. And then the father soothed his grieving little ones with affectionate words and caresses.

  2. I believe when we bring the Church down to the level of the world to reach the world, we are losing all the while and grieving the Spirit of God.

  3. And when the churches turn towards God, and we cease grieving the Spirit, so that He may work through us, we will then have conversions all the while.

  4. Let us now consider the sin of "Grieving the Spirit.

  5. Because you perhaps have heard some one say that there is such a thing as grieving the Spirit of God, and resisting the Spirit of God until He has taken His flight and left you, then you have said "That is the unpardonable sin.

  6. I think that if we search, we will find something in the Church grieving the Spirit of God; it may be a mere schism in the church; it may be some unsound doctrine; it may be some division in the Church.

  7. I believe today the Church all over Christendom is guilty of grieving the Holy Spirit.

  8. Ulenspiegel was angry with disappointment, and he came back into the cottage grieving sore in his heart and muttering between his teeth: "They have done their worst on her!

  9. You will come to a bad end," he said, "you wicked man that for a paltry sum of money have turned a happy wife into a widow, and a joyous son into a grieving orphan.

  10. It's no use grieving over spilt milk, and Christmas is coming.

  11. So I went forth with weeping eyes and grieving heart, but Allah had written my safety on the Guarded Tablet so I reached Baghdad in safety, etc.

  12. So I remained for a whole year with grieving heart, and streaming eyes until the time came for the Great Festival of Allah.

  13. Then will he, grieving for us, demand a public explanation from my lord as to why the poorest portion of the country should be ground down with such heavy burthens.

  14. What, is it possible,' cried one of the young men, 'that Rudolph is grieving for old Miss Garlov?

  15. You are sighing and grieving because you love Christine Steffens, and because you think that she loves you; that's the short and the long of the matter.

  16. On parting-day Sleep parted from my lids * And grew my grieving and my joy was shent.

  17. I niver saw the foot of any of ye agin, it's little I'd be grieving for ye.

  18. Her aunt was no doubt wondering now that she did not write, and perhaps grieving that Margaret no more felt at home in Brandon.

  19. But to read the account of it how he felt might destroy his seriousness of mind, and in all reverence and simplicity he felt it--be a means of "grieving away the Holy Spirit.

  20. She's grieving over Claude; and yet her grief has the touching quality in it that you get from a sweet old tune.

  21. Not that she was pretentious; she was only what he called pathetic, with a pathos that would have made him grieve for her if he hadn't been grieving for himself.

  22. But it isn't because of that he's grieving himself to death.

  23. Now she knew why her mother was dying; she who had been faithful a lifetime was grieving herself to death for having failed Jan at the last.

  24. But no; he would do nothing to vex her, as long as she was grieving for her brother.

  25. It was the culmination after a year of misery and unassuaged grieving for her loss.

  26. I must confess, I have long wish'd to see The Psalms reduc'd to this conformity: Grieving the songs of Sion should be sung In phrase not diff'ring from a barbarous tongue.

  27. I can't bear to see her grieving and longing, and I know that when you know you will come and get her.

  28. What were the lonely longings at home, her grieving and worrying over his illness?

  29. In this situation, therefore, she was not grieving either for Eugene, for Angela, or for herself.

  30. The night fell, and he sat there looking out at the trees and grieving about what he had lost.

  31. When he went to bed he was grieving over it, and when he awoke it was with him all day.

  32. She had been grieving her heart out, for she imagined him to be most lonely, and at the same time she was regretful that she had ever left him.

  33. And the guards thought that he was grieving for his pot full of food, that he had got by begging.

  34. And if this beautiful form of yours is not linked to such a man, then I cannot help grieving that Kama bears the bow in vain.

  35. When the porpoise heard this from the monkey, he returned home, grieving that he had through his folly failed to execute his wife's commission, while he had lost a friend.

  36. At this moment, your thing with hardly the shape of a man is grieving like a mother over his pet that's like to die in a day or so.

  37. Dummy gazed up at Ben with the grieving eyes of an ape-mother, and Ben could find nothing worth saying, but touched his finger to the tiny black bullet head that paid him no heed.

  38. He offered no other unkindness; he merely made it plain that Ben's existence distressed him somehow, while chattering Joey Mills tried to explain to Ben that Matthew was a grieving man who meant no harm by it.

  39. He's grieving himself into his grave about you.

  40. I don't believe in grieving forever, like mamma.

  41. I never passed within view of it without admiring its situation, and grieving that no one should live in it.

  42. There is a surmise in the air that you are grieving after Andre.

  43. All this time had one and another been fancying that she was grieving for Andre Valbonais?


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grieving" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    despondent; doleful; heavy; howling; lamentation; moaning; mourning; sad; sorrow; wailing