Sentence examples for mourned from inspiring English sources

On a sad, black-edged day for rugby's brotherhood it speaks volumes for Jerry Collins that his untimely death is being mourned far beyond New Zealand and his native Samoa.

The country mourned, and global leaders joined an estimated 3.7 million people on its streets to march in a show of unity.

But the former prime minister's death just over a year was not mourned by everyone in South Africa, with former cabinet minister Pallo Jordan saying "good riddance".

"And shmuel died and all of Israel mourned him," it reads on Samuel Sarphati's tombstone just outside of Amsterdam.

Then in September a statement from former president George W Bush released by his spokesman Jim McGrath mourned "the passing of one of the greatest believers in freedom we have had the privilege to know".

He will be remembered as part of the childhood of so many people, and mourned by his fans.

You might think that the commune's passing will be mourned only by a minority of crusty hippies, but my generation is not the first to have faced a lack of affordable housing.

Fellow comedians mourned his passing.

Few Republicans mourned the forced compression of their jamboree into three days, thanks to Isaac.

That looked like an effort to rally the faithful for the election that will now be called.Mr Chávez is mourned by millions of Venezuelans, for whom he was a kind of Robin Hood, shouting defiance at "the empire" (the United States once again) and the "oligarchy" (ie, the rich) while handing out windfall oil revenues.

When the delegado slipped and fell into the street below his tormentors shouted that he had cockroach blood, according to one newspaper.For some of those who mourned the passing of the antebellum South, the sight of a man with mulatto features like Araújo Cunha holding a position of power was maddening.