tearful
Origin of tearful
1Other words from tearful
- tear·ful·ly, adverb
- tear·ful·ness, noun
- half-tearful, adjective
- half-tear·ful·ly, adverb
- half-tear·ful·ness, noun
Words Nearby tearful
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How to use tearful in a sentence
In others, it’s prompted street protests, frantic PTA meetings, tearful city-council Zoom calls, and hundreds of angry emails and petitions.
QAnon Candidates Are Winning Local Elections. Can They Be Stopped? | Vera Bergengruen | April 16, 2021 | TimeThe story has a tearful ending, as Lo Porto shared in mid-March that he had gotten word that Emil had passed, “and now he is reunited with his wife.”
Following a tearful confrontation with Kevin, Wendy resolves to stay married until their son goes off to college.
Wendy Williams seems like the perfect Lifetime movie subject. So why is it so unsettling to watch? | Bethonie Butler | January 31, 2021 | Washington PostTens of thousands of tearful supporters filed past Maradona’s coffin last week as his body lay in state in the presidential palace.
Police search home and office of Maradona’s doctor in death investigation | Ruby Mellen, Ana Herrero | November 29, 2020 | Washington PostIn a tearful address over video conference, Abovitz told employees that he would resign.
Magic Leap tried to create an alternate reality. Its founder was already in one | Verne Kopytoff | September 26, 2020 | Fortune
Dozens of tearful family members huddled at the Surabaya and Singapore airports, anxiously awaiting news of loved ones.
The Presumed Crash of AirAsia Flight QZ8501 Is Nothing Like MH370 | Lennox Samuels | December 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAttacked on Twitter and by outraged columnists for promoting sexism, Taylor issued a tearful public apology.
“We lost five members of the family and about 20 kids became orphans,” he said, in a tearful phone interview.
Obama's Pentagon Covered Up War Crimes in Afghanistan, Says Amnesty International | Nico Hines, Sami Yousafzai | August 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA few days after his arrest, she paid him a tearful visit at the West Side prison on Fifty fourth Street.
Standing on the pier was a crowd of tearful fans, dressed in their best flapper frocks.
Tallulah Bankhead: Gay, Drunk and Liberated in an Era of Excess Art | Judith Mackrell | January 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSick, trembling, her beautiful face humble and tearful enough now, she bent it on his shoulder in a shower of bitter tears.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodI talked with the men in the bar, and later wandered into the parlor where the women were, some tearful, others indignant.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonThe poor, tearful desire lays a pale hand on reason's lips and gazes wistfully into the mysterious abyss of the Great Silence.
God and my Neighbour | Robert BlatchfordGreat are the duties and tearful the days of a mother who has to raise her Son, who is also God, to be sacrificed on the cross.
Mary, Help of Christians | VariousElizabeth turned her tearful face, smiling now, toward her cousin, but she said nothing.
David Fleming's Forgiveness | Margaret Murray Robertson
British Dictionary definitions for tearful
/ (ˈtɪəfʊl) /
about to cry
accompanying or indicative of weeping: a tearful expression
tending to produce tears; sad
Derived forms of tearful
- tearfully, adverb
- tearfulness, noun
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