cry out
Example Sentences
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A people can’t cry out for deliverance while refusing correction or ask God for justice while excusing wrongdoing in its own ranks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026
"I have come here to mourn an icon of Africa," one mourner, Dixon Ochieng, told the BBC, while others could be heard to cry out "we are orphans" in their grief.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2025
Or are we merely living through times in which almost everything seems like a diagnosis of events that cry out to be made sense of?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2025
In one clip, as a soldier talks to a woman, presumably his wife, their children cry out, “We love and miss you.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
France, Russia, Italy, and even Germany, can cry out in agony, but we don’t yet have that right!
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
