- present participle of cry.
crying
Example Sentences
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“It was a soda,” fellow Colts tight end Mo Alie-Cox wrote on X, adding an emoji with an eyebrow raised and another one crying laughing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
“She would have them crying as they left, but happy crying,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
She recalled seeing a younger girl crying in the school bathroom during their final year, late at night.
From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026
“That’s when it hit me, and I started crying and screaming. I’m never going to see my brother again,” Collins recalled.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
She had scratches and cuts, and the dirt on her face was streaked as though she had been crying.
From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff
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