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The phrase "tears brimming" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a state where someone is on the verge of crying, often conveying strong emotions. Example: "As she spoke about her late grandmother, tears brimming in her eyes, the room fell silent."
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Characters' eyes begin watering, pooling with tears, brimming over, etc., as each one has the chance to realize that Mom was a treasure.
"My wife died a couple of months ago, and the whole family was very helpful to me, helping make arrangements for her funeral and burial," Mr. Gonzalez said, tears brimming in his eyes.
Her parents' jolly hospitality had been stalled mid-gesture; Carrie saw her mother holding the percolator at a slant but not pouring, surprising tears brimming into her hazel eyes, as if they had been waiting for this moment, close beneath the surface.
There is a lovely scene in which Cruz sings (or lip-synchs) a plaintive ballad, with her tears brimming and the words laying forth the theme of return, but that is just the problem: you feel another cog being added to the film's emotional engine, and something about the construction seems too efficient and pat.
I smiled back at him, tears brimming on my eyelids, and said, "That, my son, is doing the right thing.
Think about this the next time you feel the anger boiling up, or the tears brimming in your eyes.
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It is an unusually good writer, I decided after wiping my eyes, who can make tears brim in the first two pages of a book whose subject is the road that runs for a little over 90 miles between Basingstoke in the east and the Devon town of Honiton in the west.
The tears brim, threatening to freeze on my cheeks.
It's not often that one feels a tear brimming in a museum, but the final letters from Scott and his companions, as death approached, are absolutely heartbreaking.
Ms. Audet, who has a son in high school and a daughter at Rutgers, said she rode home from court "almost in tears" and was brimming with sympathy for both the Clementi and Ravi families.
As it clunked into life he shouted – actually shouted – "She's gone, she's gone!" There you were, eyes brimming with tears – actual tears – in the back of a Jaguar, ever-faithful Denis by your side, his thick black specs fixed on an uncertain future.
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