Sentence examples for instead of cried from inspiring English sources

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When I got off the phone, I shrugged instead of cried, but then I looked into the eyes of my mother and my sisters, and I could not help crying.

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Instead of crying, we're just laughing," he says.

Instead of crying when she kissed her son goodbye, she merely said, "Come home".

And if the team loses, instead of crying the blues, fans can read about them.

Let the Independent Payment Advisory Board, created as part of Obamacare to help Medicare control costs, do its job instead of crying "death panels".

"I decided that instead of crying in a corner like I usually do, I would take this public," she said.

I would sing instead of crying, I remember, and my sister would say, 'Mum, Shirley's at it again.

"We're off the road," I said, and instead of crying out in terror or gratitude I just laughed.

"Instead of crying because the bank won't give me $2 million to open a restaurant," he said, "this is a way I can do it".

He learned that instead of crying or calling for us to assist him at night, he could just as easily sneak into our bed and make himself comfortable.

Though the medication made it hard to sleep, a backlog of old episodes of The Ricky Gervais Show had me laughing myself to sleep instead of crying.

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