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"Tearful" in a Sentence (13 examples)
He devoted a whole poem to the blueness of his victim's eyes, which the two policemen read out loud to one another through hysterical, tearful laughter.
On the inquest it was shown that Buck Fanshaw, in the delirium of a wasting typhoid fever, had taken arsenic, shot himself through the body, cut his throat, and jumped out of a four-story window and broken his neck—and after due deliberation, the jury, sad and tearful, but with intelligence unblinded by its sorrow, brought in a verdict of death "by the visitation of God." What could the world do without juries?
A great fire was lighted in the courtyard in which she was to be burnt, and the King stood above at the window and looked on with tearful eyes, because he still loved her so much.
"Touched by his tearful plea, / we asked his race, what tidings, good or ill, / he brings, for hope, perchance, may cheer a captive still."
Friends, do you know that it is a sad thing to be torn from life at twenty, when you are full of strength and life, when you are loved by those whom you love, to leave mourners whose tearful eyes will weep until they must shut forever?
When I drink too much, I get nostalgic and often tearful.
Rima grabbed Ziri in a tearful hug.
Ziri, Rima, and their kids had a tearful family reunion.
With tearful eyes, Paul told Rima that they were all going to die.
Tom's tearful pleas were ignored.
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Aaron got a little tearful until Laura came to reassure him.
The week that was yet to elapse, she spent in wandering through her uncle's favourite walks in hours of tearful vigil, beside his tomb, and in collecting together every trifle on which he had set a value.
Receiving the news of Joseph Beam's death two days after Christmas was a piercing blow that sent me into a tearful and contemplative stupor from which I have not yet emerged.
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