Sample Sentences for
bereaved
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    The charity delivers meals to bereaved families during their first week of mourning.
    bereaved = grieving a recent death
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    Michael Holtzapfel was buried and the book thief read to the bereaved.  (source)
    bereaved = people who have suffered the death of someone they loved
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    He must speak to the bereaved, clasp their hands, witness their tears, receive their thanks, hear the news now creeping in from every quarter as the morning drew on;  (source)
    bereaved = people suffering the death of a loved one
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    Enoch's devotion to the new faith had seemed so much greater than Mr. Brown's that the villagers called him the outsider who wept louder than the bereaved.  (source)
    bereaved = people who suffered the death of someone they loved
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    Couldn't take a bereavement day off work.  (source)
    bereavement = period of mourning after the death of a loved one
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    I judged him to be a bachelor from the frayed condition of his linen, and he appeared to have sustained a good many bereavements; for he wore at least four mourning rings, besides a brooch representing a lady and a weeping willow at a tomb with an urn on it.†  (source)
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    In the corner of a sitting room in her house, Shizuka would keep a small shrine to Mutsuhiro, a tradition among bereaved Japanese families.  (source)
    bereaved = mourning the death of a loved one
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    It is also true that, in some instances, trauma, in the shape of early separation or bereavement, has steered the potentially creative person toward developing aspects of his personality which can find fulfillment in comparative isolation.  (source)
    bereavement = suffering from the death of a loved one
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    But if the guy has any questions, and he may, what I'd like to do is refer him to you—give him your number, eldest son, mother recently bereaved, blah blah blah —  (source)
    bereaved = suffered the death of a loved one
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    Winter was long that year, the dreariness punctuated only by my weekly counseling sessions and the odd sense of loss, almost bereavement, I felt whenever I finished one TV series and had to find another.  (source)
    bereavement = suffering loss of a loved one
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    When the rector said, " 'Give courage to those who are bereaved,' " I was already dreading how loud Owen's voice would be during the final hymn; I knew it was one he liked.  (source)
    bereaved = suffering the death of a loved one
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    They were struck down with grief and bereavement to be sure, every one of them.†  (source)
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    The first three phone numbers on the list had produced terrifying results—a hysterical widow, a detective working late at a murder scene, and a somber priest consoling a bereaved family.  (source)
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