cry
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Cape Town, South Africa is a far cry from rural Northern Ireland, but it is where Sophie will spend the next four months preparing for filming.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
If audiences laugh and cry at what they see on screen, who deserves the credit — the AI, the filmmakers behind it or both?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
She thanked locals for donations of food and water brought to the rest centres, adding that "it would make you cry to see what our community's done".
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
Oropeza says she feels "a little relieved" after a session with a psychologist from Première Urgence, who advised her, among other things, to "breathe deeply, calm down, reflect, pray, cry."
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
No way was I going to cry in front of him.
From "Bye Forever, I Guess" by Jodi Meadows
This came home during Covid when many people reached out to elected officials but their cries for help went unanswered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Seeing all this, a woman kneels and cries out between sobs.
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
She cries foul on seemingly every play in which she is bumped, or nudged, or experiences any of the contact that is completely normal in the most physical basketball league on the planet.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
"When she cries missing Javed," Imtiyaz said, "her sugar levels shoot up."
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
Autumn cries, pulling me up before switching to ASL.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
"I lost it, you know. I fell to the ground. And then I cried," he said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
"I prayed a lot. I cried out to God, and I said, 'My God, why me? Why like this? Please, at least let me see my children.'"
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
Around her, people snored, babies cried and dogs barked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 3, 2026
Soon, these glasses would make him double over in laughter when she performed and cried, dabbing her eyes with tissue through the frame.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
Holding the coconut up for him to see, I cried, “Look, Grandpa. These coconuts even look like a monkey’s head.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
She’s a little bit older than me and I see her crying on stage and I’m like “OK, it’s OK.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
"He started crying a little bit, and said he wishes he hadn’t done it."
From Barron's ● Jul. 9, 2026
On a business trip to Texas last year, her colleagues found a crying kitten in a warehouse after a storm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
"When anybody listens to the album they'll have tears laughing and crying at the same time ."
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Mutti was at the water’s edge, screaming and crying, and Peter was there beside her, holding her back, his arms fast around her.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
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