Example sentences for: wept

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

  • The paper reports that when the verdict was returned, Woodward, 19, wept hysterically and shouted, "I didn't do anything!"

  • 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.

  • Hershey was in Sydney working on a film and, according to Brooks, "[s]wept into town with her big-time Hollywood ways, saw Simon--and decided 'that's for me!

  • that Amelia wept confidentially on the housekeeper's shoulder “and relieved herself a good deal.”

  • After she was taken away and strangled, the emperor wept and then abdicated.


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