tears

[tears]

The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears"

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Noun
the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds); "I hate to hear the crying of a child"; "she was in tears"


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Usage Examples

Anger tears me up inside... My own... or anyone else's.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy sweat will get you change.

I have sometimes imagined my own death and brought myself to tears.

Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or at the first notes of a jingle for a dog food commercial, will flick the memory switch, bringing tears to your eyes.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

And the smile that is worth the praises of earth is the smile that shines through tears.

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.

Christmas carols always brought tears to my eyes. I also cry at weddings. I should have cried at a couple of my own.

For women's tears are but the sweat of eyes.

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