Sentence examples for a lost son from inspiring English sources

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It will be the sound of nationhood, and a lament for a lost son.

But even supporters would admit that it felt more like a memorial to a lost son.

The year is 1962; the child is left on the parade ground, site of future anti-government demonstrations; the girl drowns herself in a pond built to console a queen mourning a lost son.

Men and women come from all over the country to the sheikh's office and comb through the files that his followers have alphabetized, hoping to discover the fate of a lost son or cousin.

At one rally in Phoenix in August, a hush muted the crowd when Mr. Ronnebeck and other family members approached the microphone, one by one, to speak about a lost son or daughter.

With the themes of a lost son and an anguished father, it's not hard to discern a metaphor for what Mr. Sheen has gone through with his son Charlie Sheen, who was making a spectacle of himself during the filming of "The Way".

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Mr. Bush, the wartime leader, read a letter from Abraham Lincoln to a widow who lost sons in the Civil War.

"Mothers who lost sons.

"He did it on the basis of a father losing a son, or a mother losing a son, and I think we all feel that.

In Kansas City, Mo., a family that lost a son in an accident shared its grief and struggle as Rivera held back tears.

Senator Barack Obama listens to a mother who lost a son in Iraq, and a father who cannot afford health insurance.

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