Example Sentences

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One night, he had wept while contemplating his future.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2021

“I can’t unsee the video,” she said repeatedly, telling the court she had wept at the footage.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2021

She had wept all morning, until she arrived at a solution: she just had to buy more clothes.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2015

“He was very touched to hear these children,” Ms. Casals Istomin said in an interview, adding that Casals had wept, as he often did at concerts.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2014

At first she thought she hated him for what they'd done to Lady, but after Sansa had wept her eyes dry, she told herself that it had not been Joffrey's doing, not truly.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin