Other Word Forms
- tearlessly adverb
- tearlessness noun
Etymology
Origin of tearless
Example Sentences
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I was feeling fairly tough and moderately tearless until sorting night.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2022
Often when I held him, he cried, a thin, desperate, tearless wail.
From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2019
“Death of the self in a long, tearless night, / All natural shapes blazing unnatural light.”
From The New Yorker • Mar. 20, 2019
The tearless groom weeps now, as his relationship founders.
From Slate • Jan. 7, 2016
He saw tears on that once tearless face, more unbearable than wrath.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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