Sentence examples for stifled tears from inspiring English sources

Here Ms. Holloway stifled tears, or tried to.

Members stifled tears as Cooper read a litany of celebration and transition.

The 17-year-old Wie stifled tears, extending her left arm and letting her hand dangle.

Her return yielded up a handful of poignant studio treasures which, with their suppressed smiles and stifled tears, never yield to nostalgia, self-satisfied exuberance, or bathos.

I stifled tears as they heard their death sentences, and laid awake in my room at night imagining them in their lonely beds thinking about their final days.

I have close friends who've delivered their kids to dorm rooms laden with cherished belongings and stifled tears and sucked in breaths and left their kids at college and come back home to deflated nests.

Four years ago, the Scot struggled to stifle tears of disappointment in receiving her third consecutive Olympic silver.

Acts of bravery, self-sacrifice and sometimes sheer dumb, astonishing luck, as told by brawny men stifling tears tend to be the key components in these movies, and this one is no exception.

Men are socialised from an early age to stifle tears and keep their composure.

I'll be fine,' " Marolyn Kruse said, stifling tears.

He stood on a sidewalk outside the dorm, saying goodbye to Spencer, stifling tears.