weeper

Example Sentences

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The wide tonal variation continues with “Don’t Let Go,” a gorgeous midtempo weeper with pedal-steel guitar, tinkly piano and mournful fiddle.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Bentley promises a diverse album, “from the arena shaker to the barroom weeper to the bluegrass fireballer.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 21, 2023

My challenge for myself as a writer was to say, "Can I write about these things and have it not be a weeper?"

From Salon • May 6, 2022

And while she’s a great weeper, more impressive is how these inundations, these eddies of feeling, move under her skin.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2021

I hold that tears are more genuine than words, for which reason the best weeper has been preferred, and so has received the velvet suit.

From The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 by Anonymous