Words similar to tearfully

Example sentences for: tearfully

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

' " During her funeral, the Star says, "he lunged from his front pew--and tearfully wrapped his arms around the flower-strewn casket of his wife."
"I don't see any reason I ought to seek the right to endure the anguish of being here," said Johnson tearfully.
Tearfully, Ellie announces that her discovery represents "a profoundly impactful moment for humanity."
He also thinks about his Manhattan-based ex-girlfriend (Kelly Preston), who tearfully told him that morning that things were absolutely over and she was moving to London.
Couldn't an American have anchored ABC's 30 hours of millennium coverage just as well and, at the end, just as tearfully?