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tears
verb
Third person singular of tear
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'tears' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the liquid that is shed from the eyes due to emotion or irritation. For example, "The sadness in her voice was mirrored in her tears".
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Between games, she slumped in her seat and looked near tears.
SH Daniel is a very intuitive actor – he felt the stillness which comes from grief in an era when men didn't burst into tears and weep over their friends.
Her eyes "filled with tears and she said 'I can't have it, it says they're only for boys.'" But Izzy decided not to take it lying down and, following a quick chat with her mother about gender stereotypes, she wrote to Disney to explain her sadness about how the costume was labelled.
"The day that we ran out of water I turned on my faucet and nothing was there and at that moment I knew the whole of Barnhart was down the tubes," she said, blinking back tears.
There were more tears, but not of joy.
The band's singer Michael Stipe and Buck's wife Stephanie burst into tears as the jury cleared him of a charge of being drunk on an aircraft last April, two counts of common assault, and one charge of damaging BA crockery.
His eyes are shining now; he seems close to tears.
While winning an Olympic medal may take blood, tears and years of training, buying one at auction won't make you break out into a sweat.
"We are women who had to think, not of preparing the bedroom of our future child but his funeral," she says blinking back tears.
The contradiction clamoured: the imperialist who wanted to withdraw from the far east, the apparently cold man who once burst into passionate tears in the Commons, the confirmed anti-planner who took on the essentially planning job of minister of health in 1960.
The TV was turned to France 2. At work that afternoon a Muslim female colleague exploded with rage and tears about what was happening.
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