shed tears

phrase

: to cry or weep

They shed tears of joy/gratitude when they heard the news.

Examples of shed tears in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The genus name Helenium comes from a legend that the flowers grew where Greek mythological queen Helen of Troy shed tears on the ground. — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2026

Roger Federer shed tears Saturday as he was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. — Washington Post Opinions, Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2026

People do not all shed tears for the same reasons, of course. — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026

Nor did their eyes shed tears over the burning library that raiders furnished with the ashes of seven thousand books, which the novelist Mamdouh Azzam had collected over fifty years inside his house in Suwayda. — Literary Hub, 15 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for shed tears

• affaires
• affairs
• armchairs
• compares
• crosshairs
• declares
• despairs
• downstairs
• forbears
• forebears
• housewares
• impairs