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Example sentences for "sorrowing"

Lexicographically close words:
sorrowed; sorrowes; sorrowful; sorrowfull; sorrowfully; sorrows; sorry; sors; sort; sorta
  1. Look on this man, as upward, with deep, sorrowing eyes, he gazes towards heaven.

  2. Sorrowing of soul, and chained of limb, What is your carnival to him?

  3. Was he carried away by sorrowing friends," asked Sharon, "or did he get tired one day and move off under his own power?

  4. But the sorrowing father now began to whistle cheerfully.

  5. Sorrowing for it, and repenting of it, and laying hold on Christ by faith, &c.

  6. Lift the latch quietly, though, for there is grief in the room, and noise comes harshly and gratingly upon a sorrowing ear.

  7. Kittie knew how much of humanity there was in the sorrowing heart that was even now beating with a pure and filial affection, as the weary steps plodded through the pleasant avenues.

  8. Not a block in the noble structures all about but could bear witness to many a sorrowing soul whose drooping body was sustained only by the thought of the needy ones at home, whose wants gave energy to every effort.

  9. Of Montefeltro I; Buonconte I: Giovanna, nor none else, have care for me; Sorrowing with these I therefore go.

  10. There is no question but that the burden of grief on his sorrowing heart, because of this terrible ordeal, this great calamity, is heavier than minds can conceive, or words can tell.

  11. Out of the depths of their sorrowing hearts, there rises to the Abhá Horizon this continual piercing cry: ‘Where art thou gone, O torch of tender love?

  12. Now while Thistledown was a captive in the lonely cell, Lily-Bell was seeking him far and wide, and sadly traced him by the sorrowing hearts he had left behind.

  13. While Ripple sang above the little child, through the distant roar of winds and waves she heard a wild, sorrowing voice, that seemed to call for help.

  14. They shall not be left sorrowing and alone, nor shall you go back without a kindly word to cheer and comfort them.

  15. When Ripple reached her home, she hastened to the palace of the Queen, and told her of the little child, the sorrowing mother, and the promise she had made.

  16. Only one thing was lacking, namely, tears--not those of the hirelings who attended it, but such as fall in silence from a sorrowing eye.

  17. After the young Bohemian's father had departed this life, the Emperor himself had dubbed his sorrowing son Knight, and nevertheless he was devoid alike of pride and scornfulness.

  18. The worthy old dame had not been slow to mark what ailed me; nay, if Cousin Maud had not besought her to spare my sorrowing soul, she long since had revealed to me what peril hung over Herdegen.

  19. Nearly two hundred soldiers, women, and officers accompanied him to the seaside, sorrowing at his departure, and wishing him good luck in the name of the Lord.

  20. For long ages in India sorrowing wives burned themselves to death on the funeral pyres of their lords.

  21. The description of the place betokened that it was of some local importance, and hope revived somewhat in her sorrowing heart at the impression that perhaps, after all, it was better she had failed in finding work at the bindery.

  22. I see it; and I do not pass half an hour with her without sorrowing for her.

  23. Though such a marriage be distasteful to you, it might perhaps be preferable to seeing her sorrowing always.

  24. But that picture of her face withered and wan after twenty years of sorrowing had had its effect upon his heart.

  25. His shirt collar was also getting larger, as though it were making room for his sorrowing heart to take flight.

  26. That absurd and sorrowing conviction of hers had opened a gap between them like a gulf that could be bridged over only by time.

  27. The delight of the sorrowing mother on finding her kidnapped child restored to her was great and unrestrained.

  28. A father loves his sick and sorrowing child most; of all his household, he occupies most of his thoughts.

  29. Jesus was now about to leave His sorrowing disciples.

  30. It is that lively hope the Church offers for comfort to all stricken homes and to every sorrowing heart.

  31. The sorrowing mother of a noble young fellow I am proud to have known, said to a friend recently who was marvelling at her fortitude, "My boy was very brave and I must try to be brave, too, for his sake.

  32. One of them appeared to smile, rejoicing that the soul of the Pope had been received among the blessed spirits; the other seemed to weep, as sorrowing that the world had been robbed of such a man.

  33. The marble preaches the sufferings of the Passion; it makes us listen to an act of bitter contrition and an act of sorrowing love.

  34. A crowd of sorrowing menials stand around, And Troy's sad matrons, with their streaming hair.

  35. And next are those, who, hateful of the day, With guiltless hands their sorrowing lives have ta'en, And miserably flung their souls away.

  36. Then, weeping too, I seem in sorrowing strain To hail the hero, with a voice of pain.

  37. But to the end he remained a sorrowing and morose man, hypersensitive, even morbidly so, but almost always the soul of kindliness and punctilio.

  38. Ye best of snakes, and O lord (Vasuki) of great splendour, from that place I heard the words the sorrowing gods spake unto the Grandsire.

  39. It was here also that Sanat- sujata recited to the anxious and sorrowing monarch the excellent truths of spiritual philosophy.

  40. And when the son of Kronos beheld them sorrowing he pitied them, and forthwith to Athene spake he winged words: "My child, thou hast then left utterly the man of thy heart.

  41. He never went through the hall of his house at night without a shudder, dreading to catch a glimpse of that sorrowing face.

  42. Mark tenderly pressed his uncle's hand, and leaned over him with an affectionate, sorrowing interest.

  43. Martin was buried amid a large concourse of sorrowing friends and relatives.

  44. The bodies of Eversole and Combs were conveyed to Hazard in the afternoon and consigned to their graves amid a great concourse of sorrowing people.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sorrowing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agony; anguish; anguished; bereaved; care; careworn; doleful; dolorous; grief; grieved; grievous; howling; lamentable; lamentation; lugubrious; misery; moaning; mournful; mourning; pining; plaintive; plangent; prostration; rueful; sorrow; sorrowful; tearful; wailing; woe; woeful