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"cry out for help" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation in which someone is pleading or begging for assistance. For example: - The hiker lost in the woods began to cry out for help, hoping someone would hear him. - The city's homeless population is crying out for help, but their pleas often go unheard. - When tragedy struck her family, she didn't hesitate to cry out for help from her friends and neighbors.
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No one, however, marches in behalf of the thousands of New Yorkers who contemplate killing themselves and cry out for help.
On August 15th the mayor, Tom Barrett, was leaving the Wisconsin State Fair when he heard a woman cry out for help in the parking lot.
Now, as students complain, taunt and sometimes cry out for help on social media, educators have more opportunities to monitor students around the clock.
The authorities made an arrest in a nearly 20-year-old case in which an 8-year-old girl was attacked and left for dead in a field, unable to cry out for help because her throat had been slashed.
"I want to cry out for help to anyone in the country who believes in justice to help us, help us," Mrs. Kimes said as tears welled in her eyes.
That "bébé" is the term used in Creole for a deaf person infuriates him, he had just said through a sign-language interpreter: "We are not babies!" Immediately after the earthquake, some deaf Haitians grew concerned that others were lying beneath the rubble unable to cry out for help.
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