cry for

Example Sentences

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Karli was crying then, crying for our burning home, and maybe also for the trees we were leaving behind, that could not run away.

From Literature

"I will go to all the friends and family I will never see again, and lay flowers and tell them: 'I remember you always, and I cry for you.'"

From BBC

I sounded like a toddler crying for their mother.

From Literature

I could hear Patch crying for me a little longer.

From Literature

Not especially popular in life, he appears to have become, in death, a rallying cry for defiance.

From Los Angeles Times