cry up
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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"You want me to cry up here? I don’t have anything more to say."
From Fox News ● Oct. 4, 2021
By 1968, it had become so much a part of the city’s culture that The Washington Post reported that a common cry up and down Wisconsin Avenue on Sundays was “How d’ya like your eggs?”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2018
So long and loudly did he cry up that stock that when best-selling Jurgen appeared, it was dedicated to him.
From Time Magazine Archive
It means sweating in a suit, watching Ma cry up close, and reciting that dumb grief script to everyone who asks, under threat of Ma’s heat vision.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
In loud voices, as though they were trying to outbellow the roar of the storm where the fishes were caught, they cry up the superior quality of the catch they are displaying for sale.
From Sidelights on Chinese Life by J. (John) Macgowan
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