Sentence examples for contain tears from inspiring English sources

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"I was so gripped by emotions that I couldn't contain tears".

"The fact that I couldn't contain tears the other day means this is much more loaded for all of us than we really understood," he said.

Mr. Pogan's father, also named Patrick Pogan, struggled to contain tears as he spoke about the case in front of the courthouse.

My eyes would sometimes contain tears but they wouldn't come".

Many in attendance struggled to contain tears as a local gravedigger placed and sealed the bodies in above-ground graves.

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According to bankersonline.com, an Internet resource for bankers, dye packs often contain tear gas, in addition to smoke and dye.

On both sides of the road, bulldozers had already pushed back the jungle for fifty yards, forming six miles of rough, hilly field that contained torn-up tree trunks, broken branches, and upturned stumps with their roots sticking out in every direction.

The American rarely displayed much emotion whereas Federer finds it hard to contain the tears.

Eventually, Kirsten, unable to contain her tears, fled to the living room.

Outside the courtroom, Ms. Sheehan, a school secretary, could not contain her tears, clasping the hands of her children.

But like the others who knew Officer Kelly and tried to share their memories of him, Mr. Celano, too, eventually could not contain his tears.

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