How to Use for crying out loud in a Sentence

for crying out loud

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• That one in orange looks like a traffic cone, for crying out loud.
  — Rabih Alameddine, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
• One of the Haim sisters, for crying out loud, is in this film.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 12 Dec. 2025
• Colby's not even on freaking social media for crying out loud.
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
• Love even had an interception in this dominant 29-13 Super Bowl LX win over the New England Patriots, for crying out loud.
  — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2026
• The two were impeccably dressed as Gomez and Morticia Addams, which is a canonically Gay couple costume choice — Lakshmi, as Morticia, was holding scissors in one of the posts, for crying out loud.
  — James Factora, Them., 7 Nov. 2025