wept

Example Sentences

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She wept, partially because she might never see her son again and partially, according to Felix, because “she feared that Basel might be utterly destroyed by the army of Charles V,” the Holy Roman Emperor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Mr Hatton's family wept and hugged each other as the coroner read out her conclusion.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026

At the scene, nurses wept in a corner: "What has happened to our colleagues?"

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

For someone who wept at seeing the modern Tatars enter Baghdad, the prospect of a similar fate befalling Tehran is more than a strategic policy shift.

From Salon • Mar. 7, 2026

The messengers of the Aesir rode like the wind, and they asked each thing they encountered if it wept for Balder, so that Balder could be free of Hel ’s world.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman