How to Use weepy in a Sentence

weepy

adjective
  • She started getting weepy when she talked about her mother.
  • I'm weepy enough that I even cry at happy endings to movies and books.
  • The final scene gave me the chills and left me quite weepy, in the best of ways.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 5 Aug. 2020
  • This Charles is weepy and thoughtful and howls to the skies in grief.
    Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2023
  • By the end of the episode, Dani stages a weepy proposal.
    Crispin Long, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2019
  • The script might be a little cheesy and a little weepy at points.
    Kerry Lengel, azcentral, 27 Mar. 2018
  • But in her script, the women aren’t weepy, lovesick, jealous or greedy.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2023
  • The roofs leak, badly — sometimes there are buckets to catch the weepy drip in the Lords chamber.
    Karla Adam, Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2018
  • There’s something about the way Lainey Wilson sings that brings to mind the great, weepy country queens of yore.
    Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2021
  • For months, Bec had gotten a bit weepy even thinking about those hugs.
    Washington Post, 19 May 2021
  • Then the scene turns from weepy fearfulness to lustful.
    Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2021
  • In newborns, the rash usually appears on the face, scalp, or trunk, and patches tend to look red and weepy.
    Holly Pevzner, Parents, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Videos of the ovation have made the rounds on the internet, thanks in part to the fact Damon can be seen getting a little weepy.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 29 July 2021
  • She’s not sunken or weepy, withering away inside a wardrobe of gray sweaters.
    USA Today, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Adele, the queen of broken hearts who has built a career on weepy ballads, is a happy gal these days.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The finale ends with everyone alive, well, and a little bit weepy.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2020
  • Smith, capturing all of its weepy poignancy, has reprinted the letter in the book.
    Michael Granberry, Dallas News, 3 Sep. 2021
  • In the North, South Korean soap operas are far more than just weepy sagas of thwarted love.
    Washington Post, 30 July 2017
  • Ben, who Erin jokes has become a weepy girl dad, is treasuring these times too.
    Staff Author, Peoplemag, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Ben, who Erin joked has become a weepy girl dad, is treasuring these times too.
    Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 29 Nov. 2022
  • In the meantime, the song is already appearing in TikToks from weepy viewers who loved the episode.
    Scottie Andrew, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • But there are also plenty of love stories and weepy dramas without a laugh in sight.
    refinery29.com, 20 June 2019
  • Boehner is known to get weepy and has no problem with public displays of emotion.
    Julian Zelizer, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
  • As a pure form of escapism, the series is as effective as those weepy movies Stella used to watch in the hospital.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2018
  • This is not a Hallmark Channel weepy film, there is definitely tears to be had.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The break-up ballad to end all break-up ballads, and a solo showcase for Agnetha, who torches it up over the weepy piano.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2021
  • Matt Damon was a perfectly creepy and weepy Brett Kavanaugh.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
  • Shackled at the wrists and ankles in a tan jail jumpsuit, Sayoc became weepy at one point, but said little at the hearing.
    Michael Balsamo, The Seattle Times, 30 Oct. 2018
  • On a series with no shortage of weepy story lines, William is a figure of singular pathos.
    New York Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Even the brothers’ weepy descriptions of their father’s abuse earned them mockery.
    Kaitlin Menza, Town & Country, 22 Sep. 2017

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