Sentence examples for cried from inspiring English sources

The word "cried" is correct and perfectly usable in written English
You can use it to indicate when someone expresses strong emotion by shouting or sobbing, often through tears. For example: "The mother cried when she saw her son after years apart."

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cried

verb

Past of cry

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I think I cried.

The Ukrainian asked me when that was then we cried, because his father was wounded on the same day on the Russian side.

"Oh God!" he should have then cried if he'd had even a speck of foresight in that giant empty head of his.

She cried herself to sleep and, more impressively, cried herself awake the next morning.

"We have drank here, played here, cried here, loved here," said Pink.

I dragged my toddlers away from CBeebies to witness this spectacle and Ted, who is 18 months old, pointed and cried "ba-wa-wee!" (toddlerese for butterfly).

He was just under two years-old at the time and separated from his father, living with her in the isolated prison: "When he cried and said he wanted his father the guards hit him and said 'you do not have a father.' That was a difficult period".

"Outrage at candidate's insult to town," cried Labour.

No rest, there was just no rest … Because she kept yelling, I cried and asked to go back to agency, but Madam said: 'I already bought you,'" a 23-year-old Indonesian said.

Practically all of Argentina has cried on this one," says Ignacio Montoya Carlotto, patting his right shoulder.

"We all cried; everyone has something to say about how they felt to have found this grandson we were all searching for".

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