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tearful

/teer-fuhl/US // ˈtɪər fəl //UK // (ˈtɪəfʊl) //

含泪的,泪流满面,泪水涟涟,泪流满面的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : full of tears; weeping.
    • : causing tears: the tearful story of his poverty.

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Examples

  • In others, it’s prompted street protests, frantic PTA meetings, tearful city-council Zoom calls, and hundreds of angry emails and petitions.

  • The story has a tearful ending, as Lo Porto shared in mid-March that he had gotten word that Emil had passed, “and now he is reunited with his wife.”

  • Following a tearful confrontation with Kevin, Wendy resolves to stay married until their son goes off to college.

  • Tens of thousands of tearful supporters filed past Maradona’s coffin last week as his body lay in state in the presidential palace.

  • In a tearful address over video conference, Abovitz told employees that he would resign.

  • Dozens of tearful family members huddled at the Surabaya and Singapore airports, anxiously awaiting news of loved ones.

  • Attacked on Twitter and by outraged columnists for promoting sexism, Taylor issued a tearful public apology.

  • “We lost five members of the family and about 20 kids became orphans,” he said, in a tearful phone interview.

  • A few days after his arrest, she paid him a tearful visit at the West Side prison on Fifty fourth Street.

  • Standing on the pier was a crowd of tearful fans, dressed in their best flapper frocks.

  • Sick, trembling, her beautiful face humble and tearful enough now, she bent it on his shoulder in a shower of bitter tears.

  • I talked with the men in the bar, and later wandered into the parlor where the women were, some tearful, others indignant.

  • The poor, tearful desire lays a pale hand on reason's lips and gazes wistfully into the mysterious abyss of the Great Silence.

  • Great are the duties and tearful the days of a mother who has to raise her Son, who is also God, to be sacrificed on the cross.

  • Elizabeth turned her tearful face, smiling now, toward her cousin, but she said nothing.