weepingly

Example Sentences

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In the third book, Lila weepingly berates Elena for having obliged her to tell Elena that her second novel is no good.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 4, 2014

This was one of their more extravagant performances in that they scored two but, if the perception is that games involving Saracens are weepingly tedious affairs, this did nothing to dispel the notion.

From The Guardian • Jan. 6, 2013

And Ravi’s mother, Sabitha conveyed why she feels her son has already been punished enough as she weepingly recounted the effect of the mass condemnation of her son after Clementi’s suicide.

From Slate • May 21, 2012

My guest did not share my response, but I came home to my husband and weepingly told him about what I had been through watching the play.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2011

And Frank was very much afraid, and promised he would no longer harm me, and held out his hand to them weepingly, but they would not take it, and swore at him.

From The Call Of The South 1908 by Becke, Louis