(n.) One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend.
(n.) One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Witnesses said that riot police and crowds of protesters had been waiting for the mourners as the service ended.
(2) Dúirt mé leat go raibh mé breoite " ("I told you I was ill") now reminds mourners of Spike's anarchic wit and wisdom.
(3) At recent climate change conferences, a coffin has been paraded through the halls of delegates covered in a shroud and attended by mourners.
(4) In the days that followed, thousands of flowers carpeted Martin Place, left by mourners and well-wishers.
(5) Last summer, 3,000 mourners attended the funeral of Tama the cat , whose 2007 appointment as honorary stationmaster at a railway station in western Japan was credited with saving the line from financial ruin.
(6) Thousands of Palestinian mourners carried the burned body of 17-year Mohammed Abu Khdeir through the streets of an East Jerusalem suburb on Friday.
(7) The roads, which construction workers began after his first serious bout of ill health, will carry mourners to Mandela's grave site.
(8) One showed a Protestant attack on mourners at a Catholic funeral.
(9) The suspicions of most of those mourners – that a police officer killed Peach – were all but confirmed in yesterday's report.
(10) Shuttles bused groups of mourners to take turns walking quietly in a circle around the casket covered in white roses and peonies – Nancy Reagan’s favorite flower.
(11) Among the mourners were General Aslam Beg, a former army chief, and General Hamid Gul, a former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency.
(12) A suspect was charged on Monday in the fatal shootings of an imam and another Muslim man , as hundreds of mourners gathered in Queens, New York, to remember the victims and call for justice.
(13) Hundreds of mourners gathered today for the funeral of Marine Richard Hollington, who became the 300th British servicemen to die in Afghanistan after he was injured in a blast in Sangin on 12 June.
(14) Mourners pay tribute to the victim at a makeshift shrine in Delhi.
(15) The images showed mourners, including Liu Xia, gathered beside a casket that was ringed by pots of white chrysanthemums.
(16) According to the Beijing News, the well-known Babaoshan crematorium will ban mourners from incinerating funeral clothes – a common sacrificial offering meant to keep the dead clothed in the afterlife – during the first two weeks of November.
(17) This last featured one of his most striking stage images: the funeral on an isolated cliff edge, the black-clad mourners standing beside a piano.
(18) Eight people died at the funeral when unidentified gunmen opened fire on mourners.
(19) Mourners were asked to make a donation to Amnesty International, the organisation to which Reynolds used to send his fees when he wrote occasional pieces for the Guardian.
(20) Thousands of mourners paid their final respects Friday to six worshippers gunned down by a white supremacist at a Sikh temple in the US almost a week ago for reasons that authorities say may never become clear.
Wailer
Definition:
(n.) One who wails or laments.
Example Sentences:
(1) An earlier US action was concluded by a settlement in which Island agreed to pay £264,000 and legal costs on the understanding that the Wailers would cease any further legal action.
(2) Peter Tosh Founded the Wailers with Marley and Bunny Wailer in 1962, but fell out and left embittered in 1974.
(3) THE FIRST TRACK I CAN REMEMBER No Woman No Cry by Bob Marley and the Wailers (1974) This is the first song I can remember hearing when I was young.
(4) Ziggy Marley Eldest of Rita and Bob's sons, and only one of Marley's 11 offspring to even come close to inheriting mantle of Wailers.
(5) He also dismissed attacks against the honesty of Rita Marley, and said she had done her best over the years for the Wailers.
(6) It would have been enough to give each of his 52 children a little more than £1m for their father's unacknowledged contribution to the immortal sound of Bob Marley and the Wailers.
(7) Born Neville Livingston in 1947, he attended school with Marley - only as band was wound up did he acquire surname "Wailer".
(8) "Aston Barrett and his brother literally created the sound of the Wailers, though not for a minute to detract from the extraordinary songwriting ability of Mr Marley," Stephen Bate, representing the musician, told the judge.
(9) "It was the Barretts' unique sound which brought the Wailers international success."
(10) My father, he didn’t watch television …” That pales in comparison with the former Wailers bass player Aston “Family Man” Barrett, however, who claims to have fathered at least 52 children .
(11) Carlton Barrett "Carly", brother of fellow reggae star Aston Barrett and originator of the one drop rhythm, joined Wailers in 1969, and stayed until Marley's death.
(12) The new group, Bob Marley and the Wailers, included the Barrett brothers and Al Anderson for the first time.
(13) Bunny Wailer Only founder member alive today, and reputedly Bob's best friend.
(14) Members of the Wailers claim they were coerced into signing the deal, a claim Mr Justice Lewison rejected.