Sentence for grief | Use grief in a sentence

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• O, agony of grief! (10)
• Pour forth all thy grief! (10)
• For, what is human grief? (10)
• Grief held aloof as much as joy. (10)
• Grief held aloof as much as joy. (22)
• I am full of grief for what I have done. (10)
• To her infinite grief she found it was not. (4)
• Then for us the struggle, for him the grief. (10)
• What grief and longing in her wild face then! (8)
• As, however, her grief continued unabated, Fitz. (6)
• The ladies fled to the boudoir sacred to grief. (10)
• Temple was aware of my grief, but saw no remedy. (10)
• His burst of grief must have relieved Dan greatly. (9)
• Nowadays it would be received with grief and shame. (21)
• She may not be able to support a bitter shock of grief. (10)
• In this great town she can only nurse her grief against me. (8)
• Mr. Fleming made no show of grief, like one who nursed it. (22)
• Would not it be cruel and inhuman to wake him back to grief? (7)
• It was impossible for her to realize grief in her own bosom. (10)
• Bernhardt betrayed a real grief, but as a woman would, and not a man. (9)
• It was in Cuba, by the way, that Jack came to grief some years later. (7)
• She would die in her grief, if she had no faith for what is to come. (10)
• There is a grief in gladness, for a premonition of our mortal state. (10)
• Was it that ye among men most wretched should come to have heart- grief? (10)
• It was clear that she wasted no time, but the sight filled him with grief. (8)
• Elinor could no longer witness this torrent of unresisted grief in silence. (4)
• Rosamund Culling was the only witness of his remarkable betrayal of grief. (10)
• She has her own way of showing devotion, and her own way of feeling grief. (12)
• He had had no experience in grief; his capacity had not been enlarged by use. (1)
• Why was she not shocked, smitten to the ground with grief and shame and rage? (8)
• The conventional phraseology appeased him, though he saw his grief behind it. (10)
• I have heard to-night, I confess with as much astonishment as grief, the name . (10)
• Her wonder at his exposure of his grief counteracted a fluttering of vague alarm. (10)
• But for Christian the hours were a long nightmare of grief and shame, fear and anger. (8)
• I had to confess that it generally was not, and that this was part of my grief with it. (9)
• But to sympathise with a grief which is not shown would be an impertinence, would it not? (8)
• Grief treads the starry places of the earth: In thy long track I feel who gave me birth. (10)
• The seeds of grief were already sown, what flowers of darkness, or of tumult would come up? (8)
• The farmer had listened through the buzzing of his uncertain grief, only sighing for answer. (22)
• Manifestly, by the pallid cast of his visage, he had tasted shrewd and wasting grief of late. (10)
• Manifestly, by the pallid cast of his visage, he had tasted shrewd and wasting grief of late. (22)
• The grief for which he could ask no compassion had at least purified him to meet her embrace. (10)
• He always had that peculiar quality of opposition; it has brought him to grief a hundred times. (8)
• Shed thy withered grief – But hold not Autumn to thy bale; The eddy of the leaf Must be brief! (10)
• Not that she cherished her grief, appeared, rather, to do all in her power to forget and mask it. (8)
• You may indeed imagine grief in the very rock that sees its flower fading to the withered shred. (10)
• There had been nothing to keep Jolyon at home, and he had removed his grief and his paint-box abroad. (8)
• To watch him even now makes one feel how terrible is that dumb grief which has never learned to moan. (8)
• The round brown eyes and the ruddy varnish on his cheeks were a mask upon grief, if not also upon joy. (10)
• The round brown eyes and the ruddy varnish on his cheeks were a mask upon grief, if not also upon joy. (22)
• But she was proud, and soon took grief to her room, as on that night after he left her, she had taken love. (8)
• Lavender sighed, and at this manifestation of his grief his sheep-dog redoubled her efforts to comfort him. (8)
• That line of intense tragic grief haunted Vittoria like a veiled head thrusting itself across the sunlight. (10)
• That was what he was really feeling, and concealing, be cause he was too well-bred to show his secret grief. (8)
• But she only smiled, and he flung away from her, not having seen that all this grief of his only made her happy. (8)
• He remembered with what grief and sense of bitter injury he heard in his first school-holidays that she was gone. (8)
• The water did not touch him, but he started back in surprise and grief, and vanished into the night without a word. (9)
• From the movement of her fingers about her heart I could not but see that this grief of hers was not about the money. (8)
• Sorrow and grief are slow distempers that crouch from the breeze, and nourish their natures far from swift-moving things. (10)
• The hour was too full of imminent grief for either of the three to regard this scene as other than a gross intrusion ended. (10)
• Grief, shock, even surprise would have roused all his loyalty to the dead, all the old stubborn bitterness, and he would have frozen up against her. (8)
• In their desertion they have multiplied and prospered; they may have a national grief, but they hide it well; and probably they have none. (9)
• Her first experience of the grief that is in pleasure, for those who have passed a season, was when the old Concert-set assembled round her. (10)
• Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive. (4)
• Proud as he was, and unbending, he was not stronger than his malady, and he could disguise, he could not contain, the cry of immoderate grief. (10)
• Perhaps the one she witnessed in Milan, when a great nobleman was buried, was longer, but in this every individual seemed to feel genuine grief. (5)
• Mavering first woke in the morning with the mechanical recurrence of that shame and grief which each day had brought him since Alice refused him. (9)
• And possibly at the present moment applying, with her cunning hand, the cosmetics and powders he could excuse for a concealment of the traces of grief. (10)

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Definition of grief:

• grief, grf, n. heaviness of heart: sorrow: regret: mourning: cause of sorrow: affliction: (_b._) bodily as well as mental pain. | adjs. grief’ful (_spens._), full of grief; grief’less, sorrowless; grief’shot (_shak._), pierced with grief. (0)

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