shed tears
Frequency: 8.018.2 per million words
also figurative
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Examples (10)
- She shed tears of joy when she saw her newborn baby for the first time.
- I won't shed any tears when Moira retires; we never got along.
- Many tears were shed at the funeral of the beloved community leader.
- He shed no tears for his lost youth, preferring to focus on the future.
- It is very rare to see a man of his generation shed tears in public.
- The actress managed to shed real tears during the play's most emotional scene.
- We shouldn't shed tears over a situation that we have no power to change.
- The politicians shed crocodile tears for the poor while cutting social programs.
- She shed bitter tears after realizing that her hard work had been in vain.
- The whole nation shed tears upon hearing the news of the national tragedy.