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Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cry (for)
Verb
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Touching the yarn as it was being spun was like strumming a gently weeping guitar.—
Gary Shteyngart,
The Atlantic,
7 Feb. 2025 -
In video footage released by the Israeli government, the women could be seen weeping and hugging their family members.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
20 Jan. 2025
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Despite that fact that artists don’t get paid for appearing in the Super Bowl Halftime show, it is considered a great honor to be asked.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
9 Feb. 2025
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Yes, the president was asked directly, is there anything that Elon Musk cannot touch?—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Feb. 2025
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Of course, Plant also used those keening high notes to express an appetite for destruction.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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The sport's powerhouse India did not want to host another event, with Zimbabwe - emerging as a destination for major tournaments - and Sri Lanka keen but bypassed for the UAE, a reliable alternative that doubles as headquarters for the sport's governing body.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes,
26 Sep. 2024
Verb
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The shooting led to outrage in the East Colfax community with friends and residents begging the Denver Police Department and city officials to do something about crime in the neighborhood.—
Noelle Phillips,
The Denver Post,
6 Feb. 2025
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For nearly a decade, District 79 officials waged a public relations battle, begging at the ballot box for taxpayers to approve a bond-issue referendum.—
Jesse Wright,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2025
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Comments Nany González doesn't regret skipping The Challenge season 40.—
Sydney Bucksbaum,
EW.com,
4 Feb. 2025
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And with every defeat, the impression that Amorim is regretting his decision to move to Manchester from Lisbon’s Sporting CP in the middle of the season gets stronger.—
Nick Miller,
The Athletic,
3 Feb. 2025
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There was so much pre- match negativity and expecting Arsenal to turn us over and moaning about the transfer window as if the club didn’t want to buy players.—
Chris Waugh,
The Athletic,
6 Feb. 2025
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First, a woman near the forge will be moaning about the blacksmith.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
4 Feb. 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 21 Feb. 2025.
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