cry
Example Sentences
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You just want to cry at the irony of it.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
"I had the best cry of my life. I felt so healed and relieved after," he says.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
“The cry was ‘never again,’” said Bob Yamada, the agency’s former head of water resources, as he reminisced over lunch recently at a mall in La Jolla.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026
That hasn’t stopped Americans from pushing back against the certainty of taxes—death is another matter—since the cry of “no taxation without representation” helped spark the Revolutionary War.
From Barron's • Apr. 14, 2026
The Mallons were walking across the beds, and Mrs. Mallon began to cry with a hard, deep sound.
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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