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The phrase "a source of sorrow" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that causes sadness or grief.
Example: "The loss of her childhood home became a source of sorrow for her as she reminisced about the memories made there."
Alternatives: "a cause of sadness" or "a wellspring of grief."
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It was not tragic – but it was a source of sorrow to him.
Whatever the cause, the move was a source of sorrow for Mr. Hamdan.
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This is a source of huge sorrow and regret for me personally and for anyone in leadership in the church.
Like Mrs. Williams in Hawaii, Mrs. Sacco has one child who can remember a father and one who cannot, a source of considerable sorrow.
But any divorce is, for most of us, a personal and intense source of sorrow.
"A reality not of paper," he said, "but one that lives within us and determines each instant of our countless daily deaths, and that nourishes a source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and beauty, of which this roving and nostalgic Colombian is but one cipher more, singled out by fortune".
When he accepted the Nobel prize in 1982, Garcia Marquez described Latin America as a "source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and beauty, of which this roving and nostalgic Colombian is but one cipher more, singled out by fortune.
But they make them more likely to save themselves for somebody, which in turn increases the odds that their adult sexual lives will be a source of joy rather than sorrow.
It could be harrowing, but it was never proprietary: we all shared the same secret; Strand's poems of the inner life were sometimes like expressions of our own: "some shy event, some secret of the light that falls upon the deep/Some source of sorrow that does not wish to be discovered yet".
But I have seen suffering before, I have seen widows wandering remote streets with the photos of their loved ones asking if anybody knows if they are alive or dead, I have watched men and women and even countries turn their deepest sorrows into a source of strength, a form of self-knowledge, a chance to grow.
This should be a source of pride and comfort for all of us, even in sorrow and adversity," Salmond said.
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