shed bitter tears

Example Sentences

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I’m here to watch it happen, minute-by-minute—to pray for the long-awaited return to form, to exalt if it happens and to shed bitter tears if another failure awaits.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 17, 2019

She shed bitter tears, and I held her frail body, crying also for all these long years she had lived with the burden of these unspeakable events.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2017

In a flash I saw life spread out before me as it really is, full of sufferings and frequent partings, and I shed bitter tears.

From The Story of a Soul (L'Histoire d'une Âme): The Autobiography of St. Thérèse of Lisieux With Additional Writings and Sayings of St. Thérèse by Taylor, Thomas N. (Thomas Nimmo)

And some began to shed bitter tears in silence, and some lamented aloud.

From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown

The head of the poor young woman fell on her shoulder, and she shed bitter tears.

From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 by Various