weeping

Example Sentences

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Aidan Levy’s 2022 biography “Saxophone Colossus” describes Rollins weeping when he got the news.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

"No words of compassion can ease this pain of loss, this burden of great suffering, when one must bury young people," the priest told black-clothed mourners, weeping or clutching flowers and holding each other.

From Barron's • May 19, 2026

She let out a loud scream and started weeping at the sight of the children.

From Salon • Mar. 24, 2026

It felt like a piece of my childhood died along with the actor who played Dawson Leery, but it wasn’t just a parasocial relationship that had me weeping next to the soap dispenser.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2026

“Every moment I work in field, I think of you,” the woman said to Papa, switching to English, weeping harder now.

From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata