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Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cry (for)
Verb
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The Padres-specific fits are so enticing, some locals might weep.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 June 2025 -
Another piece reveals the face of a weeping woman, depicted with a hairstyle characteristic of the Flavian period, which dated from A.D. 69-96.—
Willem Marx,
NPR,
20 June 2025
Verb
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Hostin asked on Friday's show, after co-host Joy Behar prompted her to tell their co-hosts that day, including Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro, what had happened.—
Raechal Shewfelt,
EW.com,
21 June 2025
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This jazzy riff on humanity and the hereafter brings a cartoon New York City to vibrant, diverse life with Pixar's first Black lead character, a band teacher (played by Jamie Foxx) who meets a jaded soul (Tina Fey), and asks big questions about the meaning of life.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
21 June 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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Frazier then tried to subtly get the answer to the question fans have been begging to know — is Rihanna having a baby girl?—
Mya Abraham,
VIBE.com,
30 June 2025
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Within a month, my friends were begging me for more.—
Tim Carter,
Hartford Courant,
28 June 2025
Verb
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Take it from two pros who have helped countless clients with their moves—this is what people always regret taking with them.—
Quincy Bulin,
Southern Living,
28 June 2025
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However, a recent poll shows 22 percent of Venezuelan Americans who voted for President Trump now regret their vote, as the Trump administration moves to end Temporary Legal Status, or TPS, for over half a million people who arrived during the Biden administration.—
Emma Marsden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
27 June 2025
Verb
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There’s no point moaning without offering some kind of solution.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
12 May 2025
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Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief Erik Windsor said fire crews removed a manhole cover in the general area of the storm drain opening, inserted a powerful listening device and heard moaning.—
Teri Figueroa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Apr. 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 4 Jul. 2025.
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