How to Use weeping in a Sentence

weeping

adjective

• His other hand rests on a shoulder of a weeping boy huddled against his knee.
  — Sally Downey, Philly.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• One snorts drugs in the bathroom, another takes weeping refuge in it, a third hurls in the toilet, while others meander here and there.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• The weeping woman turns out to be Gilles' daughter, Jeanne (Esther Garrel, the director's daughter), who has just had a bad breakup with her live-in boyfriend.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Del Potro walked with a weeping Almagro towards the umpire's chair and after the Spaniard officially retired, the two shared a hug.
  — CNN, 1 June 2017
• The weeping woman some see in this photo is supposedly still mourning the fact that her lover's stagecoach never showed up.
  — Taysha Murtaugh, Country Living, 18 Oct. 2017
• The winner — beating out distinctive favorites like the dancing lady and the twin girls — was the crying-laughing face, followed by the red heart, the weeping face, the heart-eyes face, and the blowing-a-kiss emoji.
  — Jamie Ducharme, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2017
• Cotillard, beseeching her friends and peers through those big, weeping eyes will surely require a tissue box.
  — Jordan Crucchiola, WIRED, 17 Nov. 2014
• When Tito died in 1980, her weeping classmates threw flowers as a train carrying his body rolled past on the way to Yugoslavia’s capital, Belgrade.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 18 July 2016
• Doctors often see cases far worse than Western doctors ever do: babies with growths half as big as their heads, women with breast tumors the size of softballs that have broken the skin, putrid and weeping blood.
  — Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 7 Oct. 2017
• The weeping forms of ornamental cherries make for particularly striking specimens.
  — Earl Nickel, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Feb. 2018

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