Example Sentences

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The White House gardeners will weep for months.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2022

If you hold her down and put her in jeans, she will weep and yell that she wants pink pants.

From Slate • Nov. 19, 2019

If you're not from Boston, you will weep in sympathy.

From Golf Digest • Jan. 22, 2018

“The Old Churchyard” is a hymn that counsels against mourning. Electric guitar, harmonium and bowed bass share a deep drone as Ms. Cheney sings with stoic sweetness: “Why weep for those who will weep no more?”

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2017

They say the prisoner of twenty years will weep at leaving his cell.

From Heriot's Choice A Tale by Carey, Rosa Nouchette