Example sentences for: cried

How can you use “cried” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Bill Bradley was known as "Dollar Bill" when he played professional basketball--not because of how he played but because he squeezed his dollars until they wept and cried.

  • In my teens I ran across a great book of Peter Arno cartoons from The New Yorker of the 1930s that would make you laugh till you cried.

  • When I finished writing (the opening episode of Wasteland ) I cried because I so felt for the main character.

  • The picture reportedly ended with a shot of black smoke coming out of the stack--but we'll never know because The Day the Clown Cried was judged too obscene to be released, and Lewis went back to parading doomed kids across the TV screen in telethons, while Americans goggled at his stamina, and senators nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • But I don't have any teeth, cried an old man.


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