How to Use grief in a Sentence

grief

noun
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  • I've had enough grief for one day.
  • His friends have been giving him a lot of grief.
  • He's taken a lot of grief from his friends.
  • Trying to fix the computer isn't worth the grief.
  • She was overcome with grief.
  • He has been unable to recover from his grief at his son's death.
  • The grief that Raja feels at the loss of the dream is deep.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Magazine , 6 Jan. 2023
  • As the sky-blue evening gives in to the cerulean night, grief cedes ground.
    — New York Times, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The grief and the pain are things that are out of his control.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 25 June 2018
  • If my rage is fire, then my grief is the gasoline and the match.
    — SELF, 2 June 2022
  • There's been a lot of anguish, a lot of grief about it.
    — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 24 June 2020
  • Two oilmen would come to grief, more or less, in the 1920s.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • My goodness—think about the grief that comes with that.
    — The Atlantic, 18 June 2020
  • But be prepared to guide them through some of the stages of grief as well.
    — David G. Allan, CNN, 26 June 2020
  • Don’t lose sight of who has helped you and who has caused you grief.
    — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 20 June 2019
  • That's nothing in terms of the grief timetable, in my opinion.
    — Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2020
  • But a block away in Samadi’s house, the air was thick with grief.
    — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The stage of grief had switched from anger to depression.
    — Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 30 May 2023
  • The people in the pews, deep into their grief by then, gasped.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Nov. 2021
  • But to turn all his grief and fury on Louis like this is painful.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Cross spoke about the best way for the family and friends to deal with grief.
    — Brandon Patterson, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2018
  • Joy overwhelmed grief in a space the size of a penalty box.
    — Curtis Zupke, latimes.com, 1 May 2018
  • That kind of grief can hit hard, even when the decision was for the best.
    — Love Letters.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The anger stage of grief is most pronounced with bad deaths, Carr says.
    — USA Today, 12 Mar. 2021
  • There is often the idea that grief is a sign of love and respect.
    — Jacy Topps, Allure, 30 July 2019
  • In the story, Luisa Loo seeks to find ways to help Mazzy process her grief.
    — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 May 2024
  • The loneliness of non-oral autism was a source of deep grief.
    — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
  • There was grief again, and the mournful sound of bagpipes echoed again.
    — James Barron, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2019
  • If there were to be a second season, there would be a lot of how that grief and anger would play out.
    — Sophie Hanson, StyleCaster, 31 Oct. 2024
  • But the record is also a portrait of a songwriter processing grief and healing after the most difficult time in his life.
    — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2024

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