Example sentences for: tearful

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

  • Critics pant at the steamy, tearful sex scenes between Stella and young Winston (Taye Diggs), although Time 's Richard Corliss dissents, calling it "soft-pore cornography."

  • Did you happen to catch Sam Donaldson's interview with a tearful George Bush senior on 20/20 last night?

  • Throw in a couple of well- intentioned, overbearing grandparents, tearful reminiscing about the poet- waiter's dead sister, and repeated shots of characters gazing soulfully out at the Pacific, and you've got the makings of a movie so overwrought it should only be shown on Lifetime.

  • Such denials are usually a prelude to hospitalization, recovery, and a tearful interview with Oprah, Barbara, or Diane.

  • The paper described a tearful child on television singing "You did more in your life than all the water in the sea."


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