dissolve in tears
Example Sentences
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“Within four hours, they were happy to lie to protect my brother,” Harry said, adding that the statement caused Meghan to dissolve in tears.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022
It helps managers feel emotionally safe—assured that an employee isn’t going to erupt in a rage or dissolve in tears, says Dr. Woodward.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2016
There is no record of that lost music; it is so sad that if it were written the paper would dissolve in tears.
From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)
Tell him a tale of woe about arrears of rent and a sick wife and a squad of kids and, faith, he'll dissolve in tears on the bench.
From Ulysses by Joyce, James
Men had the right to dissolve in tears, and women that of talking without prudery ….
From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry
