After her husband's death in 1673, Mary underwent extreme grief as expressed in the following diary entry:

Ms. Buchheit also said that, at her moment of extreme grief, she was given a condescending and moralizing lecture from the coroner.

There once lived a queen who ruled over the Flowery Isles, whose husband, to her extreme grief, died a few years after their marriage.

The blotched and sagging face twisted grotesquely into the grimace of extreme grief.

I'd been kept from that sleep by Ann's extreme grief and my desire to comfort her.

Various reasons for her behaviour were put forward, but no one ever mentioned extreme grief: whatever the cause, Jack was heartily glad of the fact.

The families are in extreme grief.

"He would have come to extreme grief in India".

The self-immolations are viewed as an expression of extreme grief at the loss of a beloved one.

Mr. Harwood declined further comment, pleading extreme grief on the part of himself and his wife.