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Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cry (for)
Verb
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Rice was surrounded by her legal team and her family at the time of the reading and immediately started weeping with her face in her hands.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
3 May 2025 -
Adele wept her way through 60 Minutes and sold 3.38 million albums in a week.—
Remy Blumenfeld,
HollywoodReporter,
1 May 2025
Verb
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Trains to and from the airport were also halted and police asked the public to refrain from arriving in the area.—
Tamar Michaelis,
CNN Money,
4 May 2025
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One scientist asks the other one, what goes in that gap?—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
4 May 2025
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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While Kardashian was begging for her life, the men rummaged through her belongings and stole roughly millions of dollars worth of jewelry from her.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
13 May 2025
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This rule of course begs two questions: where to build and how to pay for it?—
Lucius Riccio,
New York Daily News,
12 May 2025
Verb
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Don't regret unplayed aces; the world needs your unique contributions.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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Kenny McPeek, who won the Kentucky Derby last year with Mystik Dan, regrets running his colt back in two weeks.—
John Cherwa,
Los Angeles Times,
12 May 2025
Verb
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But the Francophone descriptor fails to conjure the dust her voice kicks up, the grit and moan that hang in the air after each song.—
Carrie Brownstein,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2025
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Having been browbeaten by the negativity of previous coaches Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte, having a manager who didn't dismiss the idea the team could be title challengers or moan about a lack of talent was refreshing.—
Zak Garner-Purkis,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 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 18 May. 2025.
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