How to Use weep in a Sentence

weep

verb
  • The meringue will weep if you put it in the fridge.
  • He wept at the news of her death.
  • She sat down and wept.
  • He wept bitter tears of disappointment.
  • Any longer and the meringue will start to weep and break down.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 20 Nov. 2023
  • When the door closed, Tiffany and I held each other and wept.
    — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 30 Jan. 2025
  • The results in 2016 left such Democrats weeping in the streets.
    — WSJ, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Standing in the rubble, a young boy wept amid the chaos.
    — Freddie Clayton, NBC News, 28 July 2024
  • While his wife wept, John, in a blind fury, trashed their room.
    — PEOPLE.com, 23 May 2018
  • Richard stood on the corner, not sure whether to weep or rage.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2021
  • This week, the celebrity-loving world wept for the death of love.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 24 Aug. 2019
  • As both of them wept, O’Loughlin promised to do better.
    — Longreads, 6 Apr. 2023
  • When the cameras cut to the crowd, her fans were weeping for her.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 9 June 2025
  • The garage is just blocks from where the two women embrace and weep.
    — Crocker Stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Set aside to let the bitter juices weep from the eggplant, about 1 hour.
    — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 19 Aug. 2020
  • In the call, she can be heard weeping and telling Bennett to breathe.
    — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2018
  • The car with Hannah drives off, and June falls on her knees in the snow, weeping.
    — Rena Gross, Billboard, 20 June 2018
  • More than once a staff member slumped across their desk and wept.
    — Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
  • To see her again on the big screen is to weep with her, with heartache and gratitude.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 23 July 2024
  • Egg sites that are shallow, oval or round wounds in the bark where sap might weep.
    — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Very happy to weep, cheer, join in the chorus, wave your arms.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 14 Oct. 2022
  • Well, to paraphrase George Bernard Shaw, the angels will weep for them.
    — Detroit Free Press, 27 Nov. 2021
  • All around him, the Spirit took hold, and people flailed their arms, wept, and danced.
    — Hazlitt, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Steinke wept in court as the judge explained his verdict.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 28 July 2023
  • Jones’ loved ones wept in the courtroom as Jones’ recording was played over and over.
    — Marc Freeman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 7 May 2018
  • As was written a long time ago, there is a time for war and a time for peace, a time to weep and a time to laugh.
    — Arkansas Online, 26 May 2025
  • The Bible says weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
    — NBC News, 28 Mar. 2020
  • This was not the first time fans have seen Federer weep with joy.
    — Sandra Harwitt, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2018
  • The Padres-specific fits are so enticing, some locals might weep.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2025
  • Karen Read wept and the crowd outside burst into cheers after a jury cleared the 45-year-old of every count against her except for one — drunken driving — in a grueling retrial for the death of her Boston police boyfriend.
    — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 18 June 2025

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