How to Use bawl in a Sentence

bawl

verb

• In the mood to bawl your eyes out in the name of ~love~?
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 14 Feb. 2023
• My dad pulled over on the side of the road bawling in Edmonton.
  — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2019
• When the video finished playing, the lights came up on a bunch of grown men bawling.
  — Chris Ballard, SI.com, 2 May 2018
• That image of you in that back corner, head on the ground, bawling.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Feb. 2023
• His fiancée and his cousin were just bawling in the corner.
  — Matt Miller, Esquire, 13 Sep. 2016
• Outside of the apartment, Collins and the entire crew were bawling as well.
  — Yohana Desta, HWD, 11 June 2018
• Musk replied to Krugman with a photo of a bawling baby.
  — Todd Spangler, Variety, 24 Apr. 2023
• Ahmad goes to his mom’s room and finds her on the edge of her bed, hunched over, bawling into hands that are balled into fists.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2019
• Oh no, everyone was bawling their eyes out, even the coaches.
  — Steve Brand, Pomerado News, 1 June 2017
• Yet a version of them, bawling and pleading, will remain on the Internet, frozen in time.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2019
• But Peter had written two scenes, one in the Scottish mountains and one in the hospital in Paris where Charles bawls, crying.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• The answer came not in words but tears, hugging his parents and bawling on their shoulders as the announcement of his score echoed across the mountain.
  — Mark Zeigler, latimes.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• At deadline, there were no followup Instagrams of mom and kids bawling.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2018
• One of them, shouting and distraught, suddenly starts bawling his eyes out.
  — Anna Arena, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2017
• The sound of cattle bawling for days after their calves were driven to the sale barn suddenly took on a harrowing timbre.
  — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2023
• In the clubhouse after the final regular season game of 2022, Pivetta couldn’t stop bawling.
  — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2023
• People take sides, people shout and bawl, people like or unlike the antagonists.
  — Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• The little girl walked onto a plane and immediately ran off, bawling.
  — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2023
• Owner Annie Blake put on waterproof mascara, the better to bawl her eyes out without looking a complete mess.
  — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2022
• Now, speed restrictions have trains crawling and riders bawling.
  — Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
• Deslyn remembers the day with perfect clarity, her teenage son, a senior in high school, bawling in the front seat of the family car, her not understanding what was wrong.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 1 Nov. 2019
• The research found that mothers in 11 countries tend to react the same way to their bawling child — by picking up and talking to the baby — and that the way mothers respond seems to be programmed into their brain circuits.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2017
• When Kentucky lost in the following round, Fox bawled in the locker room, his arm around a teammate, and eloquently described how a group of mostly first-year players had become a family.
  — Adam Kilgore, The Denver Post, 18 May 2017
• Bruins fans who delight in the image of Adam Morrison bawling after Gonzaga’s epic collapse in 2006 cringe at their own heroes’ despair.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• In those opening exchanges, Virgil van Dijk was left bawling at his fellow defenders as Salzburg threatened to take the lead on several occasions.
  — John Sinnott, CNN, 10 Dec. 2019
• About two weeks into my convalescence, Jenna called us, bawling, because her college roommate died.
  — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 31 Oct. 2015
• Kanarowski-Peterson said another woman gave her a check for $500 and started bawling.
  — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2020
• Animal keepers have grown accustomed to people shedding tears upon seeing a sloth, even bawling hysterically on the ground.
  — Nicole Hong, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2017
• No matter that, an hour into the ride, all solicitousness would be forgotten, music leaking through headphones, bawling phone conversations, children racing down the aisle.
  — Emma Cline, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2017
• In the mood to bawl your eyes out in the name of ~love~?
  — Kelsey Stiegman, Seventeen, 14 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024