bawl
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I’m making my way over to my dad, and I’m just seeing him bawl.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2026
The meeting was called after Thursday’s bawl on Copacabana that saw nine arrested across the city’s affluent southern zone, police said.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
"In other ones, you can join in a bit but do you really have to shout and bawl and scream?" he added.
From BBC ● Feb. 8, 2023
To those ready to bawl their eyes out as the finale's end credits roll, maybe we should call it an ordeal willingly undertaken.
From Salon ● May 25, 2022
He thought she had come to bawl him out.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Upon hearing the newborn’s piercing bawls, Segawa strode toward the birth register to record the newborn’s details.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 16, 2017
Sort of like a child who throws his lollipop onto the carpet, then bawls because he can’t have it anymore?
From Washington Times ● Nov. 16, 2016
And then, “My name is Kiiiid,” he bawls, dragging one syllable out for two measures.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 17, 2016
BST14:14 “Cut the references to shrunken underpants, Doyle, this is a banter-free zone,” bawls Justin Kavanagh, on behalf of Mourinho.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 16, 2015
Little Johnny’s feet are sore after a long march and his commanding officer bawls him out.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
"I bawled, I cried, and asked God why. I'd taken care of people my whole life. God told me he didn't have me there as punishment, but on purpose."
From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026
Valeria Bellodas-Lazo was so upset when she heard Harp wouldn’t coach the girls’ team this past season that “I bawled my eyes out for 30 minutes.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
I didn’t want to cry then but it just happened: I bawled.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 18, 2022
In Mr. Totti’s final game, generations of Italians shed a tear, and Romans bawled uncontrollably, as the star took a victory lap around the field with Ms. Blasi and his children.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2022
“Phil saw him in the office getting bawled out for it.”
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
And in a figurative sense, the hard-luck Southerners in these bawling, impish stories all have the feeling that the world is laughing at their names.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Gus was still bawling, but he was nowhere to be seen.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
"When she came on stage, I was right at the front, so I was literally bawling," added Poppy from Kent.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Stripped of his invulnerability, Homelander wilts into a bawling wimp, begging for his life on his knees.
From Salon ● May 24, 2026
I was bawling my eyes out and laughing hysterically at the same time.
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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