CRIED in a Sentence

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327 example sentences for CRIED, such as:
1. She burrowed her head in the pillow and cried and kicked her feet at the tufted counterpane.
2. 'Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a passionate voice. 'Would YOU like cats if you were me?'
3. Then you cried and declared you didn't know what had come over you and that he couldn't ever respect you again.
4. That was fortunate, for if she could have spoken she would have cried out truths couched in Gerald's forthright words.
5. Alice cried with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!'
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of CRIED
cry
 n.  a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
 v.  bring into a particular state by crying
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "I'm going to beat your hide off for that," cried Stuart fiercely.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  "I wouldn't have Cade on a silver tray," cried Scarlett in fury.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  "Oh," cried Scarlett, fresh pain striking her as Gerald's words brought home the terrible inevitability of the truth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  "No," she cried vehemently, jerking away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  "Well, at any rate I've never been thrown," cried Scarlett indignantly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Small Carreen could have cried because, for all Scarlett's encouraging words that morning, Brent had done no more than say "Hello, Sis" and jerk her hair ribbon before turning his full attention to Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  She cried until Charles climbed into bed beside her and tried to comfort her, cried without words until no more tears would come and at last she lay sobbing quietly on his shoulder.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
8  They all cried to her that she must join their knitting and sewing circles and their hospital committees, and no one else's, and she promised recklessly to right and left.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
9  As they passed a rambling green clapboard house, a little black girl posted on the front steps cried, "Hyah she come," and Dr. Meade and his wife and little thirteen-year-old Phil emerged, calling greetings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
10  To Scarlett, this house cried out for the masculine smells of brandy, tobacco and Macassar oil, for hoarse voices and occasional curses, for guns, for whiskers, for saddles and bridles and for hounds underfoot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
11  She burrowed her head in the pillow and cried and kicked her feet at the tufted counterpane.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  That was fortunate, for if she could have spoken she would have cried out truths couched in Gerald's forthright words.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  Then you cried and declared you didn't know what had come over you and that he couldn't ever respect you again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
14  "You all must stand by me and not leave me alone with him for one minute," cried Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
15  "Oh, you can't go home," cried Pittypat, bursting into tears.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
Example Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1  The judge said he could hug her for her words; so he cried, and his wife cried again.
2  "Oh, PLEASE mind what you're doing!" cried Alice, jumping up and down in an agony of terror.
3  Alice cried with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!'
4  'Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a passionate voice. 'Would YOU like cats if you were me?'
5  I thought so too; and my self-esteem being wounded by the false charge, I answered promptly, "I never cried for such a thing in my life: I hate going out in the carriage."
6  When the magic mirror revealed that Snow White was still alive, the wicked queen cried out in rage and uttered dreadful malediction.
7  "O noble sir, give alms to the poor," cried Aladdin, playing the mendicant.
8  "Put up your dukes!" he cried, making a fist to show his pugnacity.
9  Fed up with the toadies and flunkies who made up his entourage, the star cried, "Get out, all of you! I'm sick of sycophant!"
10  "Oh, I beg your pardon!" cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor animal's feelings.
11  The king he spread his arms, and Mary Jane she jumped for them, and the hare-lip jumped for the duke, and there they HAD it! Everybody most, leastways women, cried for joy to see them meet again at last and have such good times.
12  The judge said he could hug him for them words; so he cried, and his wife she cried again; pap said he'd been a man that had always been misunderstood before, and the judge said he believed it.
13  "Let the stormy winds bluster," cried Jack, "we'll set sail tonight anyway."
14  "Who needs a microphone?" cried the mayor in his booming voice.
15  They did not hang Lady Jane Grey; they beheaded her. "Off with her head!" cried the Duchess, eager to decapitate poor Alice.