Sentence examples for black mourning from inspiring English sources

Black mourning ribbons dotted the city.

There have been people like Lirij Imeraj, a frail woman, still in black mourning clothes.

Purple and black mourning bunting was suspended from the church facade, flapping in the day's bluster.

Party faithful cheered as their huge success became known, but many were dressed in black mourning clothes.

My memory of him stops with the suit, the hug, the piteous little "racial" realization framing the whole like a black mourning border.

Ibtisam is a woman of 50, but she looked 20 years older, her face a pale canvas of anxious lines over her long, black mourning cloak.

Louis Trotter and his ailing grandson Edward both contemplate the grave, Bluey is fond of regaling her son Dodd with the latest obituaries, Katrina creates an all-black mourning garden "filled with bat-like devil flowers, dark-blood Queen of Night tulips and bamboo 'Noir' " and Tull often muses on the successive losses and abandonments he has suffered over the years.

At Meins' funeral, friends and family wore black and green ribbons — black for mourning and green for environmental health, they said.

Nevertheless, Foster did more than most songwriters of the period to humanize the blacks he composed about, such as in "Nelly Was a Lady", a plaintive, melancholy song about a black man mourning the loss of his wife.

Wired magazine went all black in mourning.

She is sealed inside black, smothering mourning clothes: an ugly Silenus exterior.