shed bitter tears

Example Sentences

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I’m here to watch it happen, minute-by-minute—to pray for the long-awaited return to form, to exalt if it happens and to shed bitter tears if another failure awaits.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 17, 2019

She shed bitter tears, and I held her frail body, crying also for all these long years she had lived with the burden of these unspeakable events.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2017

After her conventional evening at home, she shed bitter tears on her pillow.

From The Twelfth Hour by Leverson, Ada

She sat down and shed bitter tears of sorrow and mortification.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various

I fully believed that my father was dead, and shed bitter tears at his loss.

From Snow Shoes and Canoes The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory by Little, Norman