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weeping

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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
Anybody who has watched children fight knows that weeping will start only after the victim has given up struggling and wriggling and accepted defeat. Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025 The sound of this widow weeping echoes throughout this world like a battle cry. Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 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
Family matriarch Donna Adelson was scolded by a judge Thursday for weeping in the courtroom after being convicted of orchestrating a 2014 murder-for-hire plot of her former son-in-law, a prominent Florida State University law professor. Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2025 One, there's not a lot of moisture weeping out onto your pie crust. Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for weeping
Recent Examples of Synonyms for weeping
Adjective
  • Walt Disney Imagineering updated the storyline of Black Widow Bride Constance Hatchway earlier this year by turning her from an axe murderer who beheads her wealthy husbands into a more mournful figure overwhelmed by the dread of lost love.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
  • In this context, even a simple boast about wielding a Beretta sounded mournful.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Amelia Gray was, fittingly, dripping in crystal for the Swarovski Masters of Light celebration in Los Angeles on Tuesday night.
    Kelsey Stewart, Footwear News, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Hadid's looks for the night included a lace lingerie piece dripping in silver fringe and a red hot satin bra with a matching garter and underwear, along with a floor-sweeping robe.
    Angel Saunders, PEOPLE, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Reich remembers Zettel crying and her daughter leaving in an ambulance.
    David Clarey, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Gretchen continues this revelation on the bus and starts crying.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 24 Oct. 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
  • On a recent day, a patron drank a Guinness at the bar amid walls are covered in funeral notices from people who had come for a drink after saying that final goodbye.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 25 Oct. 2025
  • The family has not yet announced funeral plans, and no further details have been made public.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • This gives the plant time to recover before the growing season, reduces winter damage, and prevents bleeding, or flowing sap, from fresh cuts.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2025
  • The boys instead witnessed a man bleeding from a knife wound on the ground.
    Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 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 30 Oct. 2025.

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