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verb

present participle of weep

weeping

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noun

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of weeping
Adjective
For there is a weeping of the whole body. Anne Carson, New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2025 But the mood in Israel hardened dramatically when, on July 31, Hamas released a video of the skeletal 21-year-old Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski, weeping and in pain. Emily Rose, USA Today, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
The weeping judges reached for the 10 paddles for a perfect score. Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2019 Ruby Falls’ also takes up less room because of its weeping habit. Boston.com Real Estate, 1 Oct. 2019
Noun
Not far from a city landfill, the convoy pulls off the highway and enters a rutted dirt road, hidden from view by the branches of weeping willows. Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025 When Jenny tried to talk with her mother about the conflict, Alice would often immediately start weeping. Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for weeping
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weeping
Adjective
  • Similarly, the discreetly mournful compositions of Giorgio Matteo and Aki Oliviero’s score hover politely on the periphery of the (in)action, careful not to intrude.
    Jessica Kiang, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • His narration is a constant pleasure — mournful, wry, and suffused with a world-weary poetry.
    Leila Latif, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The new collections reimagine the classic Bird on a Rock motif, brought to life by Jean Schlumberger in 1965, and takes its design cues from a bird’s wing, as well as the layered look of a bird’s plumage, to create graceful, sculptural pieces dripping in diamonds and other gemstones.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 2 Sep. 2025
  • An ice machine in the middle of the room had a drain line dripping into a 5-gallon bucket.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • The 8-year-old ia unable to sleep without crying throughout the night and uncontrollably in his sleep, his mother wrote.
    Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Sep. 2025
  • This wakes my kids who start crying.
    Esther K. Choy, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • This show is equal parts feel-good and pass-me-the-tissues-because-I’m-sobbing.
    Nikki Sternberg, HollywoodReporter, 18 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • James O’Donoghue, a planetary scientist with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, likened our planet’s tilting phenomenon to a nodding head.
    Aylin Woodward, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021
Adjective
  • Following the boy’s death, donors raised about $30,000 in a GoFundMe campaign launched to help with funeral expenses.
    Christy Gutowski, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Both Ahmed and Karia spoke of family members having seen ghosts at funeral ceremonies, which made sense of the visitations Hamlet’s father makes after death.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 29 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • For example, if a patient has recently had surgery or bleeding complications, medications may not be safe, and the team will rely more on mechanical devices and mobility.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The other kind of stroke, a hemorrhagic stroke, results from a ruptured blood vessel that leads to bleeding into or around the brain, damaging brain cells.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • No racist stereotypes, no demeaning facial expressions, no bowed heads, and no broken bodies from the old Hollywood.
    David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 July 2025
  • The composer also added synths to his orchestral score, as well as bowed metal, where a violin bow is rubbed against metal instruments like a cowbell or a Vibraphone, for when Roz has a particularly intense feeling.
    Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Jan. 2025

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“Weeping.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/weeping. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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