weep
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"We were forced to leave because of the Houthis," she told AFP, adding: "My children are still there -- they couldn't get out. I weep for them every day, waiting for them to escape."
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
“One day I’ll weep for this,” David thinks, a day that comes soon enough.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
All I wanted then was to sink into a pot of chicken-and-rice stew and weep.
From Salon ● Dec. 28, 2025
There is a sense of disbelief in this Sierra Leonean village as people weep in front of the bodies of two teenage boys wrapped in white cloth.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2025
She sniffles a little, then wipes her nose and doesn’t weep.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Daniela Lopez, 40, weeps as she speaks with the psychologist.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
No college basketball fan weeps for the Blue Devils’ bad luck, but Duke knows better than most that a great regular season doesn’t guarantee a championship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 15, 2026
She misses her daughter, her namesake, and weeps at the sight of school buses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
When I ask about the reunion with his family, Sergei lifts a hand to his face and weeps.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2025
They say she weeps Knee-deep in the river, The gray of dusk A shawl over her head.
From "Neighborhood Odes" by Gary Soto
He renders the original’s panoply of suffering in accessible English, as in this view of Satan: “With six eyes / He wept, and three chins let the foul tears fall / And bloody foam.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
An AFP correspondent saw people marching to the cemetery, waving Hezbollah flags as women dressed in black wept, holding pictures of the dead as an Israeli drone flew overhead.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
His family members screamed with delight in the packed courtroom in Valletta, while Caruana Galizia's family wept, the agency said.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
This time, Messi was so happy, he wept.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
But Anna wept bitterly for Crocodile Guts and then she, too, fell ill and died.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
What Howrey delivers with “Body Language” is a novel that covers all that ground while keeping the reader on the edge of their seat, alternately howling with laughter, holding their breath awaiting resolution, and weeping.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
The Buddha, seeing him bruised, bloody, and weeping, smiles and tells him he must bear it.
From Slate ● Jul. 10, 2026
The capital was draped in black; thousands lined the streets, weeping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
One of the groups included a weeping mother who had lost her child.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
Farmer was so elated, he told me, that he felt like weeping.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
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