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Example sentences for "cried"

Lexicographically close words:
crickets; cricks; cricoid; cride; crie; crieng; crier; criers; cries; criest
  1. Froebel, the greatest of the three, cried "Live!

  2. He broke down and cried like a child when it was hinted that a discharge from the service was likely.

  3. I've got to go with that train, Ralph," cried Zeph in frantic agitation.

  4. Oh," cried the young man, "I shall catch them!

  5. But, after all," cried Raoul, "you soon came to know the truth!

  6. Instead of laughing," she cried indignantly, "you'd do better to do as M.

  7. I was in a dark passage, I was frightened and I cried out.

  8. Lachenel," cried Richard, "you must have some idea.

  9. His wondering soul cried out, "Lord, if Thou hadst been here!

  10. She heard the front door shut in the distance, and her soul cried out within her, yet she stood still and held her ground.

  11. Still Stephen Marshall reached from the gallery and pulled up, one after another, poor creatures, and still the helpless thronged and cried for aid.

  12. I said it; I said it,' cried the bearer of that burden.

  13. We will not go near the Sahibs,' cried the first husband.

  14. If I eat thy bread,' cried Kim passionately, 'how shall I ever forget thee?

  15. I am ten leagues deep in calamity,' cried the Mahratta, picking up the cue.

  16. In the name of the Gods, get her her pipe and stop her ill-omened mouth,' cried an Oorya, tying up his shapeless bundles of bedding.

  17. Return, old man, or the train may depart without thee,' cried the banker.

  18. To him the Sahibs held out their glasses and cried aloud confusedly.

  19. But--but the astrologer said no word of this,' cried the lama, snuffing prodigiously in his excitement.

  20. Pay me twice over when the money comes,' the man cried over his shoulder.

  21. It is I that am the woman of ill-omen,' cried the old lady penitently.

  22. I have an ulcer on my leg,' cried a scullion.

  23. Nay,' he cried passionately, 'this is only a weakness.

  24. I thought I had seen a great one even now,' cried Kim.

  25. I do not know; but upon the hour that I cried first fell the great earthquake in Srinagur which is in Kashmir.

  26. And bring her hither," cried Darrell, "to receive my gratitude.

  27. Do you fear I should lop your ears, dog," cried Jasper, for shrinking from my side with your tail between your legs!

  28. Then was the great Duke glad, and forthwith cried To all his hunting train a rich reward For him who slew the stag and saved the man, But death for him who slew both man and stag.

  29. Then cried the despot, "By the horn of Bel!

  30. I burst into tears and cried out in my trouble, "Oh, you are cruel to me; you laugh when I am so unhappy.

  31. That you will never have," cried Jessie, and the smile with which she greeted her guest was enough of welcome for any one.

  32. Indeed, she had once crept to my chamber, and cried over me like a child.

  33. In my anguish I cried out, "What can I do?

  34. No wonder I cried and kissed that soft hand like a child.

  35. When her eyes turned sorrowfully upon him, he cried out,-- "Oh!

  36. I cried out, in nervous dread, 'you speak as if he were really in danger.

  37. I knew it--I was sure of it," cried the girl, with quick tears in her eyes.

  38. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts.

  39. When Christ was about to cast certain of them out of one who was possessed, they cried out, "Art Thou come hither to torment us before the time?

  40. Human hearts everywhere and in all time have cried out against the remorselessness of the great enemy.

  41. Paul cried out, when struggling under conviction, "We know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

  42. The milk purveyor to my chalk cried "Whoa," Because I did a trifling milk-bill owe.

  43. When Burlesque entered, Tragedy cried out-- Avaunt, and quit my sight!

  44. Should ye not hear the words which the LORD hath cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, when men inhabited the south and the plain?

  45. Then cried he upon me, and spake unto me, saying, Behold, these that go toward the north country have quieted my spirit in the north country.

  46. There was a dreary period of packing and storing for Angela, in which she stood about amid the ruins of her previous comfort and distinction and cried over the things that had seemed so lovely to her.

  47. She went out on a little balcony which was there and cried alone, the night lights shining wistfully about.

  48. She cried over a handsome silk dressing gown in which he had been wont to lounge about--it smacked so much, curiously, of older and happier days.

  49. It was put down beside her, and she cried for joy, but it was a weak, soundless cry.

  50. She threw her arms and head upon the kitchen table, falling to her knees, and cried and cried.

  51. He cried from an excess of involuntary and uncontrolled emotion.

  52. I love it for that," he cried appreciatively.

  53. Tears came into her eyes again and she cried weakly in her handkerchief.

  54. Now as she cried she also thought of the fact that Eugene could write love letters to this horrible Christina Channing--one of the same kind, no doubt; her letters showed it.

  55. Now," cried the Princess exultingly, "now, my son is King of England!

  56. The Quarter-master-Sergeant then ascended the ox-carriage and cried in a loud voice: 'The roast ox will now be given away!

  57. They have just been telling me how bitterly she cried in the coach so far as anybody saw her.

  58. Elegies were cried about the streets, and very common exclamations were: "Oh, that it were his brother!

  59. You'll never get it back," cried one of the crowd.

  60. If you're captain," cried Mark, "you ought not to.

  61. He cried almost all day and all night, and woke himself up crying in the morning.

  62. Next time she thought she would put her naked foot so that they would step on it; then if she cried out perhaps they would stroke her.

  63. Stop," cried Charlie, running down to the water's edge.

  64. The crew looked irresolute as to whether they should renew their attack or throw down their arms and yield themselves as mutineers; but they were roused by the voice of Jack Haulaway, the second mate, who cried out, "What!

  65. Then some of the crowd cried out, "The Princess Bertha is dead; we have seen her funeral.

  66. Why, the man's mad, or else is not quite sober yet," cried a third.

  67. But those in favour of the Princess Bertha applauded the words of Hans, and cried out, "We shall see if the remains be in the coffin.

  68. But the crowd cried out to him, "Thou, too, votest for the Princess Carlotta.

  69. It is false," cried Hans; "the Princess Clothilde is a hypocrite and an usurper, and has plotted to obtain the crown for herself.

  70. One of the crowd below picked up a cinder which had fallen from the coffin, and cried out, "The holy father speaks the truth, for the coffin contained nothing but cinders of burnt wood.

  71. Here, holy father, here," cried the princess, emerging from the helmet of Hans.

  72. Hans cried out in a loud voice as he was instructed by his spouse.

  73. I must go out," she cried between her sobs.

  74. When I woke, I cried a bit, because it wasn't true.

  75. Oh, I don't want to give it up," cried Becky.

  76. Yet, if Philippa cried herself ill, as she often did for some such unreasonable whim, it was so very bad for her.

  77. Oh, do send 'em out," she cried in an agony.

  78. Say summat, Dan," cried Becky, in an agony at last.

  79. On being told that such demonstrations were not permitted to strangers in America, he beat his breast and cried out, 'My God, so beautiful and so cold!

  80. Never again will I doubt you, my Amanda,' cried the Raven, packing herself into the dowager's corner with a grateful heart.

  81. I know I shall like it in spite of everything,' cried Matilda excitedly, flattening her nose against the window.

  82. The Magdalen cried as if her heart was broken, and I am sure those tears washed some of her sins away.

  83. I should feel like a lamb being fattened for the sacrifice if I were in her place,' cried one of the freeborn American citizenesses, with an air of unmitigated scorn for French ways of conducting this interesting ceremony.

  84. Matilda waved the umbrella like a bâton, cried 'Allez!

  85. Two coffees and two benedictines,' cried Frank, and they relapsed into their chairs.

  86. He put his head out of the window and cried 'Shoo!

  87. And here is the old red bed,' cried Frank.

  88. He could not see it, but when he had poked among the bushes and cried 'Skat!

  89. This way, ladies and gentlemen,' cried the hurrying guide, and they all clattered over the stone pavement.

  90. It's too new to cut,' cried Frank, sawing away upon the kitchen table.

  91. So I think,' cried Maude, with conviction.

  92. You can always get small entrees sent down from the Stores,' cried Maude, as a happy thought.

  93. Now that interests me more than I can tell,' cried Maude, with her eyes shining with pleasure.

  94. We must--we really MUST go on with our reading,' cried Mrs. Hunt Mortimer.

  95. Why, that would be first-rate," cried all.

  96. Of course he has," cried Corpse Kitty, aloud.

  97. Then he cried "Nat," and they were in each other's arms.

  98. She thrust Sepper away with such force that he fell on his back, and shrieked and cried aloud, so that the whole house was alarmed.

  99. At last his mother came and found him in the hay-loft, cried with him, and tried to comfort him.

  100. Tell you what," cried Constantine; "we'll drink hot wine now.

  101. But she couldn't abide thorns: the least little thorn was a thorn in her eye, and the moment she saw one she always cried out, 'Oh dear!

  102. Seize him, Bruin," cried the gamekeeper, with a smothered voice.

  103. And the young married women may come too," cried Agnes.

  104. One of them cried after him, as he went away, "This was out of kindness; but if you show your face in the village a week after this we'll try the other persuasion.

  105. I ask nothing more of anybody," cried Sepper, and fled toward the highlands.

  106. He cried quietly, and the few people who hurried by did not notice him.

  107. And now he's come back to eat them," cried Marie, nodding at Carl.

  108. But, really, she almost cried last time they got out, she was so sorry.

  109. As she let it fall, she cried in distress, "Oh, Emil, why did you?

  110. She was more mournful than our birds here; she cried in the night.

  111. I'll write as long as I live," cried the boy impetuously.

  112. When I've cried until I can't cry any more, then--then I must do something else.

  113. Now, Barbecue, tip us a stave," cried one voice.

  114. We must both have cried out aloud when our eyes met, but while mine was the shrill cry of terror, his was a roar of fury like a charging bull's.

  115. Between this and that, I was so utterly terrified by the blind beggar that I forgot my terror of the captain, and as I opened the parlor door, cried out the words he had ordered in a trembling voice.

  116. John," cried the coxswain, "you're a man!

  117. Livesey, that must have been you or Hawkins," cried the squire.

  118. Ay, ay, sir," cried the cook, in the passage.

  119. The thing is as clear as noonday," cried the squire.

  120. That's for number one," cried the accused, wiping the sweat from his brow, for he had been talking with a vehemence that shook the house.

  121. Of course I said I would go with my mother; and of course they all cried out at our foolhardiness; but even then not a man would go along with us.

  122. I never told that," cried the squire, "to a soul.

  123. I thought so," cried the cook; "this here is a p'inter.

  124. When the lady put him in his box, he squirmed and screamed; and when she fastened the cover down, he cried and scratched to get out.

  125. When she would give him no more, he cried very hard,—he was such a hungry baby, and the milk tasted so good.

  126. You see, at that time of his life he did almost nothing but sleep and eat, and he never cried at all excepting when he was hungry.

  127. The lady’s friend thought his little box too close and small for him, and gave him a nice large basket; but he did not like to sleep in that at all, and cried and scratched so when he was put in to take a nap that the lady let him out.

  128. I suppose they cuddled as close together as they could, and cried and cried, and wondered why mother did not come home and take care of them.

  129. He licked every bit from the lady’s finger, and then cried for more.

  130. He stayed in the hall, crying a little--Nicholas cried right often--while I sat with father and tried to think of some excuse to get away.

  131. I told him that he was impertinent and that he would have to go at once; but he cried and begged me not to say that, not to get him 'started.

  132. He cried all the time he was cooking dinner, in a queer, choked way; and afterward touched me--on the arm.

  133. Three and a half," he cried monotonously.

  134. John Woolfolk had made the same passionate protest, he had cried it with clenched hands at the withdrawn stars, and the profound inattention of Nature had appalled his agony.

  135. There had been no sign of her since he had fallen down the step and she had cried out.


  136. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cried" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cried aloud; cried angrily; cried another; cried excitedly; cried little; cried out; cried passionately; cried several; cried she; cried the; cried they; cried unto