dissolve in tears

Example Sentences

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“Within four hours, they were happy to lie to protect my brother,” Harry said, adding that the statement caused Meghan to dissolve in tears.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2022

It helps managers feel emotionally safe—assured that an employee isn’t going to erupt in a rage or dissolve in tears, says Dr. Woodward.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2016

There is no record of that lost music; it is so sad that if it were written the paper would dissolve in tears.

From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)

The humid clouds of spring float over the enamelled meads, And, like my eyes, dissolve in tears.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 491, May 28, 1831 by Various

Gratian.—Turbavit is “mitigated wo” again: Unlike the Lesbias of our modern years, Who for a sparrow’s death dissolve in tears.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various