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Example sentences for "with tears"

  • Do not go about with your cheeks all covered with tears; it is not right that you should grieve so incessantly; for Telemachus, whom you always prayed that you might live to see with a beard, is already grown up.

  • With tears in his eyes John Horn addressed the assembly.

  • With faces abashed, with heads bowed, with hearts renewed, with tears of sorrow and of joy in their eyes, the Brethren went thoughtfully homewards.

  • Then some sudden recollection would bring back the scene of the review at the Tuileries and fill her eyes with tears.

  • You are lost, madame," the cure said gravely, with tears in his voice.

  • The General turned his head away towards the sea, with tears of rage in his eyes--and saw the steersman swimming out to the privateer.

  • But I resisted all these overtures, and sat there in desperation; each time asking him, with tears in my eyes, for my money or my jacket.

  • With tears in his eyes Martialis did as she desired.

  • In eloquent words he described to Diodoros and Melissa all he had felt, and the terrible consequences of his heedless folly, and as he spoke acute regret filled his eyes with tears.

  • Whence I of his intent before appriz'd, Stretch'd out to him my cheeks suffus'd with tears.

  • He answered, with tears in his eyes, Commander of the faithful, I have not found any person that could give me the least account of him.

  • I was extremely troubled, and entreated the jeweller, with tears in my eyes, to let me stay three days longer in, his house, which he granted.

  • I received her with all the tenderness she could expect; and inquiring into the cause of her sad condition, she told me, with tears, how inhumanly her husband had dealt by her.

  • Our dole more deadly looks than dying; Balms and gums and heavy cheers, Sacred vials fill'd with tears, And clamours through the wild air flying!

  • I will whisper to your ears:-- The sweets of love are mix'd with tears.

  • With them I take delight in weal And seek relief in woe; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude.

  • But with her other hand she took Martin's and held it just as tight, and looked a little anxious, with tears in her blue eyes.

  • And fountains indeed they were, for their eyes were running over with tears.

  • But the King lifted her very quickly so that she stood equal with his heart, and embracing her he said, with tears in his eyes: "And you, beloved!

  • Even then her assent was made with tears glistening on her cheeks.

  • My lord," said Buddir ad Deen, with tears in his eyes, "pray do me the favour to let me know wherein I have displeased you.

  • The merchant, with tears, protested he was innocent, bewailed his wife and children, and supplicated the genie, in the most moving expressions.

  • I was extremely troubled at this; and entreated the jeweller, with tears in my eyes, to let me stay three days longer; which he granted.

  • The faithful Banks vowed, with tears in his eyes, that he would never desert me.

  • With tears in his little blue eyes he had begged the Colonel to take him, and I remember him well on that June morning, his red face perspiring under the white bristles of his hair as he strained at the big oar.

  • At last he looked down into her tear-wet face, into her eyes that were shining with tears.

  • He was astonished to see that her eyes were filled with tears.

  • When He came on His message, He came with tears in His eyes, and did even weepingly tender the terms of reconciliation to them; I say, with tears in his eyes.

  • And she added, with tears, "I have heard cries of death.

  • My lord," said the page, with tears in his eyes, "it was a letter to one of my cousins.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "with tears" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    each line; light and; single body; with all; with another; with every; with him; with little; with many; with orders; with others; with reference; with regard; with some; with sudden; with tears; with the; with three; with two; with water; without any; without further; without her; without his; without the; without which