Example Sentences

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Sources have told BBC News NI that the damage is "chronic", "they've never seen anything like this" in a new building and that "the place is weeping water."

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2025

Its common name is weeping fig, and in these flayed skins the lamentation resonates.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2024

“Usually in the movies that’s where the woman is weeping and begging for her life, but Marla sees it as an opportunity to give her elevator pitch to a wealthy person,” Blakeson said.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2021

If you can’t raise sensible arguments, then what use is weeping?

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

While the damsel is weeping, which she did in a charming and determined way, we had better explain about the tournaments which used to take place in Gramarye in the early days.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White