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Example sentences for "weeping"

Lexicographically close words:
weep; weepe; weepes; weepest; weepeth; weepon; weepons; weeps; weepy; weer
  1. Cognizant of their meetings under the weeping willow, Claire knew why Shelley and her sister-by-affinity met so often at the trysting-tree.

  2. Old St. Pancras churchyard was a comparatively secluded place, and Mr. Kegan Paul is careful to record that 'Mary Wollstonecraft's grave was shaded by a fine weeping willow.

  3. The captain will not come into the garden," said I to myself; "he is undoubtedly weeping in his chamber, among the souvenirs.

  4. Yet with his hands Love wipes my weeping eyes, Saying, this toil will end in happy cheer; What costs the heart so much, must needs be dear!

  5. Groans, weeping friends, indeed, and gloomy sables, May oft distract us with their sad solemnity: 91 The preparation is the executioner.

  6. There Faith shall come, a pilgrim gray, To bless the tomb that wraps thy clay; And calm Religion shall repair To dwell a weeping hermit there.

  7. With unavailing grief, 60 Despairing of relief, Her weeping children round Beheld each hour Death's growing power, And trembled as he frown'd.

  8. One of the two remaining foster-brothers landed on it, and immediately turned black and fell to weeping like the rest.

  9. The Island of the Black Mourners* An island full of black people continually weeping and lamenting.

  10. But the howling of dogs beside me, And the wail of the old heroes, And the weeping of the women by turns, 'Tis that vexes my heart.

  11. What Mary Wiggett heard can only be guessed, but it set her burning with jealousy of Rose Hinch and weeping with hurt pride.

  12. Old Mrs. Grelling, senile and maundering, had been weeping weakly, oppressed by a hallucination that she had lost her grasp on Heaven.

  13. The weeping girl left the room, hiding her face in her dress.

  14. Much astonished, soldiers and sailors surrounded the happy man, who held the weeping Camilla in his arms.

  15. In the middle of the hall stood--pressing his head against a pillar and weeping loudly--a rich merchant of Ravenna.

  16. Lucy was weeping alone at the Hall, with Mrs. Gilroy offering her such cold comfort as she could think of.

  17. But Lucy, in spite of Beryl's evil influence, which had rather warped her better nature, persisted in weeping for the miserable cousin who had so suddenly been cut off in the midst of his wickedness.

  18. He wanted money, and got it, along with a weeping idiot whose heart he broke.

  19. With an activity wonderful in a woman of her years she sprang to her feet, and hurried up the path round to the front of the house, following in the wake of the weeping girl.

  20. I don't want a scene of kissing and weeping on the platform.

  21. How often she pleaded with God, weeping bitter tears, that he would give her certainty in place of terrible doubts!

  22. And now, breaking down from her intense excitement, she bent over the child again, weeping and sobbing.

  23. Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they were not.

  24. Peter arose and came with them: when he was come, they brought him into the chamber, and all the widows stood round about him weeping and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them.

  25. And cast that unprofitable servant into utter darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  26. Then said the king to his ministers: take and bind him hand and foot, and cast him into utter darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  27. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

  28. First came the stalwart policeman bearing something white in his arms, then came the tall, thin man in the linen duster, followed by a number of women weeping and wailing.

  29. Paula turned to Mrs. Marsh who, overcome with emotion, was weeping bitterly.

  30. The lawyer looked at the weeping woman in silence.

  31. Then she stayed her weeping to make a final request.

  32. It remained to bring Henrietta, who was still weeping angrily in her apartments, to a state of calm more befitting the Queen of England.

  33. With them sat their eldest son, the boy of whom it was said that he had been found weeping because the father who had received three kingdoms as his heritage would leave him never an one.

  34. A figure of Mr. Perceval is lying on a mattress, under which is a sarcophagus, the figure of power (with the fasces) weeping over him.

  35. The figures on each side are Faith and Hope; and those above are two weeping Genii over her urn, mourning for her loss.

  36. She had sunk into her great armchair, and was weeping hot tears.

  37. Even while I speak to you, he in his loneliness is pondering and weeping over these very lines which you have just read without a suspicion of the depth of their bitterness.

  38. The young house-surgeon melted out of the quaint, quiet room; in his place, a group of little children gathered about a weeping lady; and the lamentation was familiar to the ancient echoes of the house.

  39. The weeping woman has still another heart-rending duty to perform.

  40. Some reports clothe this sorrowful, weeping woman in white muslin; others in black satin.

  41. Josephine was standing at the window of her prison, calmly gazing upon the outward world, while her fellow-prisoners were weeping around, overcome with the thought of the terrible doom which awaited their loved friend.

  42. The weeping woman on her knees before him looking up into his face, with eyes from which the veil of pride and indifference was rent away, eyes out of which the sheer, hungry, unashamed adoration gazed.

  43. Such a glance should have sent any youngster weeping to its mother's skirts; but the tiny man on the woods-path stood his ground, ruffling like a game cock.

  44. He needed the advice himself, for ten minutes later, when his father came up, he was weeping bitterly with his head in Miss Allardyce's lap.

  45. And she fell to weeping again with a renewed effusion.

  46. I know not how long my fit of weeping might have continued had not one of the domestics entered the room, and informed me that a poor woman was in the kitchen seeking charity.

  47. He found the boy with his face bowed upon his hands, weeping bitterly.

  48. Nine years have rolled by the with their various changes since we first introduced Earnest Harwood to the reader, a child of five years of age, weeping at the grave of his mother.

  49. The women ran weeping to bid them good-bye, And sweet Mary Pynchon was there (I guess) With a sigh in her throat, and a tear in her eye As Holyoke marched into the wilderness.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "weeping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    awash; cry; crying; dangling; dependent; drenched; drowned; engulfed; excretion; falling; filtering; filtration; flooded; flowing; hanging; hung; immersed; inundated; lachrymal; lachrymose; lactation; lamentation; mourning; ooze; pendent; pending; pendulous; percolation; permeated; puling; querulous; saturated; seepage; sniveling; soaked; soaking; sobbing; sodden; soggy; sopping; soused; straining; submerged; suspended; swamped; swinging; tear; teardrop; tearful; teary; waterlogged; weep; weeping; weepy; whimpering