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
Millions of people sought to enter it, but could not, and shed bitter tears of disappointment.
From Modern Saints and Seers by Marrett, Evan
She sat down and shed bitter tears of sorrow and mortification.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 by Various
And some began to shed bitter tears in silence, and some lamented aloud.
From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown
