Sentence examples for they wept for from inspiring English sources

They wept for the young white Canadian woman who was merely wonderfully brave.

They served in wars far from Crete, they fought the occupier of their land, they wept for comrades and brothers, they lost children to death and emigration.

I count myself among the lloronas of Poem CIX: "women wept for the dead women who had never known me as if they wept for themselves".

They wept for him, they reminisced, they remembered him, but they were wired: they had lived in the shadow of a great human being.

They totally submitted to Scofield's sublime embodiment of embittered mediocrity, they wept for Mozart's piteous demise, they took it on the chin when Scofield addressed his last words to them with a kind of terrible complicity, which mingled intimacy with contempt: "Mediocrities everywhere, now and to come: I absolve you all".

In Staten Island, they wept for Joseph M. Doyle, a bond manager at Cantor Fitzgerald, who was just 25, and for John McAvoy, a firefighter with Ladder Company 3, whose 11-year-old son, Kevin, was presented with a Company 3 fire hat, one just like his dad had worn.

Women beat their chests as they weep for sick children, children who have migrated to the Middle East and children lost in the war.

They wept, apologizing again and again for failing to protect and nurture this wunderkind, who, driven by his compassion for humanity to effect change, packed incredible achievements into his 26 years.

Perhaps he loathed what they had done, and wept for their victims.

They both remembered; Priam wept for Hector, Sitting crouched before Achilles' feet.

Few people, be they politicians or media pundits, wept for Ahmad and Ahsan because they are accused of Islamist inspired terrorism offences.