Other Word Forms
- tearlessly adverb
- tearlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of tearless
Example Sentences
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One or two news photos would show her with swollen eyes, but tearless.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2022
Often when I held him, he cried, a thin, desperate, tearless wail.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2019
“Death of the self in a long, tearless night, / All natural shapes blazing unnatural light.”
From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2019
It might also be the succinct user’s manual for this meandering, deliberate and tearless — yet oddly moving — western vehicle, which is both slow and, as gunslinger movies tend to be, action packed.
From Washington Post • May 20, 2015
And the angel was sobbing tearless, broken sobs.
From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer
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