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Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cry (for)
Verb
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Or that, even worse, it would be arbitrarily divided into episodes in order to inflate the view count and/or pander to short attention spans (Eywa wept).—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
7 Nov. 2025 -
Watch Lawrence weep through her interview in the clip above.—
Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Join our live chats or ask a question in advance.—
Karen Tumulty,
Washington Post,
15 Jan. 2026
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Police added that Lattimore was arrested for not telling the officer there was a gun inside the vehicle when asked.—
Scott Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Her lack of emotion baffles the people around her, who expect, or even require, keening expressions of grief.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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The aunties kneel and sway and hug on the living-room floor, keening dramatically one minute, chuckling over their cellphones the next.—
Namwali Serpell,
The New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2025
Verb
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As a kid in Rochester, New York, Kane begged his parents for a dollar to play.—
Anna Rahmanan,
thehustle.co,
9 Jan. 2026
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While eating at the restaurant with her parents, Black begged for her own tasty drink and the bartender whipped one up, naming it after her.—
Greta Cross,
USA Today,
8 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Millions of Gen Zers are facing unemployment as entry-level office roles get absorbed by AI, and millennials are regretting taking out thousands in student loans for careers that now have significantly diminished prospects.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune,
6 Jan. 2026
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Whitfield never regretted making his intentions for a wife so public, but a few overzealous interactions had put him on guard.—
Sarah Hepola,
Dallas Morning News,
6 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Shannon moans right about the time Jenn walks out to see what the commotion is all about.—
Peter Larsen,
Oc Register,
10 Oct. 2025
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There’s something moaning in the background.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
10 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The trope tends to elegize artists who are perceived to be ahead of their time or otherwise inimical to regnant conventions.—
Peter Schjeldahl,
The New Yorker,
19 July 2021
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Spielberg h as chosen to elegize the story by romanticizing it, swathing the characters in Norman Rockwell attitudes, a meddlesome symphonic score, and a golden fairy dust that shines through the windows like God's blessing.—
Eliza Berman,
Time,
5 Oct. 2017
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“Cry (for).” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cry%20%28for%29. Accessed 10 Jan. 2026.
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