wept
Americanverb
verb
Example Sentences
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Mr Hatton's family wept and hugged each other as the coroner read out her conclusion.
From BBC
People were climbing aboard while friends and relatives in the crowd wept or simply stared.
From Literature
She wept then, uncontrollably, as much in anger as in grief, I thought.
From Literature
At the scene, nurses wept in a corner: "What has happened to our colleagues?"
From Barron's
After participating in a prayer service attended by the Papal Nuncio to Lebanon, Paolo Borgia, who is touring Christian towns near the border, Jallad wept for her young son, holding a photograph of him.
From Barron's
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