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Definition of cry in English: cryverbcries, cried, crying krʌɪkraɪ [no object]1Shed tears, typically as an expression of distress, pain, or sorrow. don't cry—it'll be all right with object you'll cry tears of joy Example sentencesExamples - Don't be afraid to cry, as tears can baptize the soul anew.
- Out of frustration, exhaustion, and mounting stress, I cry in the street.
- In February this year, social workers at the airport reported that she had cried hysterically for hours.
- Now as he sat in his chair thinking about his oldest daughter, he remembered that not even in the hospital did she cry - not one tear was shed.
- She was holding my hand and crying huge, wet tears that splashed onto my arm.
- He cried too, tears of shame for hurting her and his wife, tears of loss because just thinking about life without her made his internal organs cramp in distress.
- I cried softly into his shoulder and let him hold me and try to comfort me.
- My mom cries a lot.
- She cried all night and refused to speak to her father.
- It was not supposed to end with her slumped on an Athens pavement, crying bitter tears of pain and frustration.
- Woman were crying with tears of joy as men swung their children around before giving them a smothering bear hug.
- She had always seemed so strong and had never cried in front of him.
- Darren and Cara understood why Mom cried that night, even if she didn't.
- There was never anybody there to wipe away her tears and she just cried alone in the dark, begging for love which never came.
- He started to cry; tears of bitterness and regret for a past he couldn't change; for the love he needed taken from him so many times.
- She continued to cry softly on his shoulder, but there was no sadness in her tears.
- It was considered good to cry so tears were frequently shed in public by both men and women.
- Homeless and friendless, I set out into the slums, and found a quiet alleyway near an open air market to cry myself to sleep in.
- In the end, he told me, he cried too many tears, and that was why his eye began to swell.
- Throwing herself across her blue flower bedspread, she cried herself to sleep the first night of her period and many nights afterwards.
Synonyms weep, shed tears, sob, wail, be in tears, cry one's eyes out, cry one's heart out, cry as if one's heart would break, bawl, howl, snivel, whimper, whine, squall, mewl, bleat 2Shout or scream, typically to express fear, pain, or grief. the little girl fell down and cried for mummy Example sentencesExamples - Their mouths were gagged to prevent them from screaming or crying out, and the girl had tears down her face.
- He bit hard onto his tongue to keep from crying out from the pain to come.
- He tried to regain his footing, but his right leg gave out and he tumbled back into the dirt, crying out in pain.
- In the confusion, a voice cried out through the tunnel.
- Myra was crying out now with pain as the child was being born.
- She cringed as the light moved closer and bit her lip to keep from crying out in fear.
- I felt something hit me in my stomach, and landed flat on my back, crying out in pain.
- She cried aloud in agony and clutched her jacket close.
- He said it was then he first heard a bang and saw one of the officers on the floor crying out in pain.
- The activists could hear women moaning and crying out in pain.
- She spent many an agonizing night biting her lip to keep from crying out in pain as he relentlessly beat her up in his drunkenness.
- James was being frequently sick and crying out in pain.
- And I continued to fall, crying out desperately for help, but knowing that none would ever come.
- One of them cried out, his voice echoing through the halls.
- The children cried out for help as the ice crack more along the surface.
- She sat in her cell, trying to hold it in, but still crying out in pain.
- Alexander cried out in anguish, but was unable to move away from a final blow.
- Abby went sprawling a few feet away, landing hard and crying out in pain and fear.
- Then the last of my energy was gone and I collapsed across the desk, crying out at the pain in my broken arm.
- Kim's eyes filled with tears involuntarily and she cried out in pain.
Synonyms call, shout, exclaim, sing out, yell, shriek, scream, screech, bawl, bellow, roar, whoop - 2.1with direct speech Say something loudly in an excited or anguished tone of voice.
‘Where will it end?’ he cried out Example sentencesExamples - "What? " the children cried in unison.
- ‘If someone sees you, they will execute the whole street,’ he cries, pushing him away.
- "Let my right hand wither, " more than 300,000 voices cried out in unison.
- Feet could be heard pounding down the steps to his quarters and a voice cried out, ‘Maurice!’
- And saying this he cried out with a great voice: Lazarus, come out here.
- ‘I deserve every pain you may inflict on me,’ she cried, tears welling up in her eyes.
- Suddenly a voice cried out to her in this manner: Get up quickly!
- Oh I am so, so sorry about the weather, cried the marketing manager of Lilianfels hotel wringing her hands, when the driver dropped me off.
- What luck, cried the student and plucked the great flower.
Synonyms utter suddenly, exclaim, ejaculate, tell, babble, jabber, call out, cry out, burst out with, come out with - 2.2with object (of a street trader) shout out the name of (goods for sale)
there was a bustle of activity as vendors cried their wares, offering shellfish to potential buyers Example sentencesExamples - He notes that Hamilton often caught his sellers in the act of selling rather than crying their goods.
- In the little trading towns, the traders sat in their shops, far too weary to cry their wares.
- The name Sally Lunn (Lunn is more usual than Lun) is said to commemorate a woman baker of that name who had a pastry-cook's shop and cried her wares in the street.
- Store owners and merchants were crying out their wares or conducting business.
- Merchants were crying out their wares in the morning air, each straining to make their voices heard over the music and laughter.
3(of a bird or other animal) make a loud characteristic call. the wild birds cried out over the water Example sentencesExamples - The eight birds cried wildly and fluttered over them in fright.
- An owl cried out.
- The breeze drifting through my window is warm, and somewhere I hear a bird crying over the water.
- Somewhere a bird cried, and up on the hill the tinkling sound of a cowbell rang.
- The bird cried out, thrashing its wings.
- One day, a resident chimp cried out, signaling that snakes were present.
- A bird cried in the distance, then was joined by another.
- And far, far away to the north-east a wolf cried.
- When very young, the cubs cry when afraid and hum when contented.
- Overhead, a bird cried, and in the distance, another answered.
- Again the dogs cried, this time closer, and caused the horse to spook.
- Birds of various kinds cried out as they evacuated from their resting-places.
- The bird cried out and thunder echoed back from the sky.
nounPlural cries krʌɪkraɪ 1A loud inarticulate shout or scream expressing a powerful feeling or emotion. Example sentencesExamples - Then without warning there were roars, cries, and shouts.
- I let out a small cry and a few tears rolled down my cheeks.
- His cries of despair brought tears to Jennifer's eyes.
- He slumped against the door and listened for a cry or a scream or anything at all, but when none came he realized how much shock she must be in.
- With an inarticulate cry of triumph, he tossed his cane away and stood effortlessly.
- The baby let out a lusty cry and we all shed tears of joy.
- Shouts and cries and screams filled the room, creating a wave of noise that crashed down on James' ears, leaving him feeling numb and deaf.
- He gave an inarticulate cry and attempted to wedge himself further into the corner he was occupying.
- The prisoners were panicking, and there were loud shouts and cries of fear.
- When I finally got up all I could see was smoke, and I could hear the cries and screams of the survivors.
- She went down with a cry of pain as tears sprang to her eyes.
- His tendency to strut around the court, pump his fists and shout cries of celebration will drive women who love mischief into a frenzy.
- I gave a strangled cry before bursting into tears on Adelle's shoulder.
- Instead of using music, the scenes are accompanied by real sound: incomprehensible murmuring, shouts and cries.
- There was a scream, a shouted cry, from somewhere as the light was completely shut off.
- The village which had been peaceful for centuries was suddenly filled with cries and shouts.
- Back at the airport, there were screams and shrieks, cries and prayers as others witnessed the crash.
- A sharp cry tore itself from her lips as she threw herself onto the floor outside, her head bowed as tears fled from her eyes.
- The shouting grew louder as multiple screams and cries rose from the end of the hall.
- Crouched over in agony, Ruth's terrible cry of betrayal seems torn from the depths of her soul.
Synonyms call, shout, exclamation, yell, shriek, scream, screech, bawl, bellow, roar, whoop - 1.1 A loud excited utterance of a word or words.
there was a cry of ‘Silence!’ Example sentencesExamples - Impassioned cries of: ‘We will shed blood to save the Datta Peetha’ were raised.
- It's the hub of village life and when you go there at night, expect some of the elderly worse-for-wear locals to greet you with cries of ‘Hello, my brother’ when they discover you're Irish.
- Local residents danced in the streets celebrating the decision with cries of ‘Execute the vile meditators!’
- It was like you see in the films - you hear the whistle and the bang, there's a cry of ‘incoming’ and everybody gets down on the ground.
Synonyms call, shout, exclamation, yell, shriek, scream, screech, bawl, bellow, roar, whoop - 1.2 The call of a street trader selling goods.
the city comes to life after 10 p.m., with the din of car horns, and the cries of street hawkers Example sentencesExamples - The cries of street vendors hawking their merchandise rose above the hubbub.
- Despite the lights and the trains and the noise, it is quite easy to imagine the cries of the hawkers in a different age.
- The shrill cries of the vendors, pursuing passers-by to buy their wares rang through my ears.
- Visitors are battered by a cacophony of cries by hawkers trying to flog a variety of the ubiquitous plastic trinkets and squeaking toys.
- I have just been reading the Keith Waterhouse column, Echoes from the past, about the cries of street traders.
- In the weavers' cottage, weavers would be hard at work, and the streets thronged with people, where visitors would hear the cries of street traders selling their wares.
- 1.3 An urgent appeal or entreaty.
fund-raisers have issued a cry for help Example sentencesExamples - The man gave a faint cry for help but I covered his mouth before he could.
- Then, the howling in the trees was their plaintive cries for help.
- The club who has issued a cry for help says it will disband within the next three weeks, unless immediate support from parents and supporters comes forward.
- On the day she was killed, we heard a scream, a cry for help.
- Thank you for your quick response to the cry for attention I issued upon my blog.
- Football-supporting MPs have issued a rallying cry for ‘all associated’ with the game to pull together and save York City.
- His urgent vocal-style demands your attention like a cry for help.
- So too was his cry for reform silenced the medieval way.
- A cry for help sounded through the house as Charlotte, described at Winchester Crown Court as an awkward feeder, stopped breathing.
- The woman's desperate cries for help to the emergency services had been recorded.
- John Pews, 82, was buried under his collapsed shed for an hour before his cries for help were heard by a neighbour last month.
- The likely chairman of the proposed new York rugby league club, Roger Dixon, has issued a rallying cry for fans to keep doing their bit for the cause.
- Newrbidge primary schools have issued an urgent cry for help as the schools crisis in the town deepens.
- She began to scream, but her cries for help were muffled.
- Often the messages have been copied to a number of us to ensure his cry for help has been registered.
Synonyms appeal, plea, entreaty, urgent request, cry from the heart French cri de cœur - 1.4 A demand or opinion expressed by many people.
peace became the popular cry Example sentencesExamples - The most frequent cry is to demand the whereabouts of the powerful foreign reporting that they remember from the 1960s.
- One group has proposed that he can openly join the national cry for urgent action by the Government and its many arms which exist to deal specifically with the problem.
- A rallying cry has gone out to save football pitches from the council's axe.
- Soon, international opinion took up the cry and the authorities reacted quickly.
- The match also almost certainly ended the cry from fans demanding a return to Sunday action.
Synonyms maxim, saying, proverb, aphorism, adage, saw, axiom, formula, expression, phrase, rule, dictum, precept, epigram, gnome
2The loud characteristic call of a bird or other animal. the harsh cries of magpies Example sentencesExamples - Ranging from the chirp of crickets to the loud, booming cry of indigenous animals, the wilderness is truly alive with the sounds of fauna.
- There was silence in the meadow for a few minutes, except for the cries of distant birds.
- These noisy animals have several types of cries and bloodcurdling howls.
- The cries of topical birds and animals could be heard very clearly in the night air.
- I could hear strange animal cries; some so deep and loud they sent chills up my spine.
- In the distance, one or two unnamed birds send out a cry from the distant dense forests.
- She was aware of every small noise around her, from the smallest twig snapping underfoot to the cries of foreign birds.
- Animal cries and howls wailed through the valley.
- The air is full of bird cries and one may even spot a few deer.
- At his father's prompting, the little boy began to mimic the birds' cries.
- Behind her she heard the cries of frightened animals.
- The next thing I knew, a balmy breeze played across my face, and the soft cries of birds drifted to my ears.
- Abby looked skyward and was greeted by the cry of an angry bird, warning her away from his meal.
- Suddenly I heard a loud bird cry as a large bird of prey flew towards me.
- It is in fact one of those animal cries that is both scary and scared in equal parts, a shriek that would make an intruder really think twice about going any further into a burrow.
- A few cries came from nocturnal birds, hunting rodents.
- Whistles and cries came from the birds as they continued forward.
- Imagining their hoots to be the cry of some dangerous animal, she had spent nearly two terrified days on the run from her rescuers.
- McBride recorded more than 100 hours of sounds and will listen to the audio tapes in the next month, in the hope of hearing the bird's cry.
- Yet the only target they fired on was an unidentified animal, whose cries then kept the unit awake all night.
Synonyms trill, trilling, song, birdsong, warbling, chirp, chirping, chirrup, chirruping, chirr, chirring, cheep, cheeping, twitter, twittering, tweet, tweeting, whistle, whistling, chatter, chattering, squeak, squeaking, pipe, piping, peep, peeping, call, calling 3A spell of shedding tears. I still have a cry, sometimes, when I realize that my mother is dead Example sentencesExamples - If you are committed to removing all the tangles no matter how long it takes, then give yourself permission to get angry and have a good cry or scream.
- After my initial cry, I don't think I shed another tear for Steve.
- He took an awful long time coming back, because he had to keep stopping to have a cry!
- Sometimes there is nothing like a good cry.
- She had a tight feeling in her chest that she felt could only be relieved by a good cry or a piercing scream.
- I have a cry while I slice the onions.
- I put my arms down on the computer desk, and leaned my head down on them to have a cry.
Synonyms sob, weep, crying fit, fit of crying (cries), weeping, sobbing, wailing, bawling, howling, snivelling, whimpering 4rare A pack of hounds. he kept a cry of hounds to hunt in the wilderness Example sentencesExamples - Sometimes I have known such a cry of hounds at uncoupling to take the game at counter.
- With four packs of staghounds, sixteen of foxhounds ... besides not a few of those small cries of beagles, which afford such excellent sport in their way.
- She was hindered by a full cry of hounds and horsemen pursuing a hare.
- He had two hunting hounds that were to be part of the cry of hounds that the lord of the manor then kept.
- Scent hounds are valued for their sense of smell and are generally used in a pack, known as a cry of hounds.
- It is the only county in which I have heard a pack of hounds called a cry of dogs.
Phrases cry one's eyes (or heart) out Weep bitterly and at length. I cried my eyes out when he fired me Example sentencesExamples - I can remember sitting in the bathtub, crying my eyes out.
- At this point i was crying my eyes out and couldn't say anything to prove him wrong because he was completely right.
- With this I stormed into my room and slammed the door, and proceeded to cry my heart out.
- A man is walking along the canal bank when he sees a little boy crying his heart out, so he stops and asks him why.
- It must have been a very sad sight to see four grown men standing on the docks crying their eyes out.
- Her husband John came in to find her crying her eyes out.
- The relatives of the victims were crying their eyes out too.
- After the recording, I'd go home and cry my eyes out.
- You spend your days and nights crying your eyes out.
- I thrown myself into Chloe's bed, hugging her doll tight, crying my heart out with bitterness.
Synonyms weep, shed tears, sob, wail, be in tears, cry one's eyes out, cry one's heart out, cry as if one's heart would break, bawl, howl, snivel, whimper, whine, squall, mewl, bleat
Ask for what is unattainable or impossible. there must be no more self-pity, no more time wasted on crying for the moon Example sentencesExamples - His life is apt to appear to him a constant succession of small checks to his wishes, which he finds opposed either by the constitution of things, as when he cries for the moon, or the will of his elders, as when he is forbidden to sit up till midnight.
- If she cried for the moon, he'd borrow every ladder in the parish and lash 'em together to get up.
- When the baby cries for the moon, you do not give him what he wants.
- He cried for the moon by complaining that the media failed to put this speech on their front pages.
- When my brother was a baby, he cried for the moon and would not be comforted.
- I haven't cried for the moon, and have been sensible in my demands; but there has nevertheless been this sense of boredom with everything, with my family and with my work.
- I'm all in favour of ambition but I think when he says he'll be a millionaire by the time he's 25, he's simply crying for the moon.
Protest strongly about a real or imagined wrong or injustice. deprived of the crushing victory it was confidently expecting, the party cried foul Example sentencesExamples - Not surprisingly the opposition is crying foul and is calling for a national referendum on the matter given that the minority Labour government is reliant on a handful of Green votes to get the legislation up.
- But those who support her opponent are crying foul.
- The controversial cover of the University of Winnipeg's creative writing journal has some contributors, editors and students crying foul.
- Political parties have cried foul at the king's move, calling it an unconstitutional and undemocratic step.
- A group of outdoors enthusiasts who built secret cabins on Mount Fromme and have been using them for the past 15 years are crying foul over a North Vancouver District plan to tear down their forest hideaways.
- Protest and counter-protest occurred, with the Germans crying foul and furiously questioning the rules.
- This sounds eminently reassuring, but I cannot believe that we will get through the forthcoming election without somebody, somewhere crying foul.
- So there's no reason for these people to be crying foul.
- But the opposition cried foul, accusing the government of manipulating the votes.
- Italy fared no better, but they did not depart without a moan, crying foul after an honest 2-2 draw between Sweden and Denmark ended their hopes of progressing to the knock-out stages.
A passionate and honest appeal or protest. Example sentencesExamples - I read that statement as a kind of cry from the heart.
- The film is a shattering cry from the heart but it is rendered all the more effective by its sense of calm, controlled restraint.
- The letter from his mother, who knows Tom has died, is a cry from the heart for him not to go to the front.
- They co-wrote this song, a plaintive cry from the heart, which helped Gaye to find some measure of redemption before his tragic death in 1984.
- It will be a cry from the heart as much as a plea to open the wallet.
- It's an indelible moment - a cry from the heart of a woman who would never let anyone see her tears over her decision to remain ‘merely’ a maid so that her sometimes ungrateful children can get ahead.
- It's a cry from the heart for the West, united in righteous and understandable anger, to pause for thought before taking the next fateful step.
- There is no better evidence that both Tresy and Tim are right than the agonized cry from the heart this young woman shows us in her latest post, dated today.
- This is my cry from the heart on Australia Day, for right now, I am concerned that we are seeking to squash the hopes of people who need it most - desperate people heading for Australia, an island of hope.
- It's actually a cry from the heart for the Labor Party as a whole to gather its resources, its intelligence, its energy and it's passion.
Synonyms call, shout, exclamation, yell, shriek, scream, screech, bawl, bellow, roar, whoop
1Weep until one is soothed or exhausted. he broke your heart—cry it out, girl at 18–24 months, we did have to let our son cry it out a little Example sentencesExamples - Children have been crying it out for generations.
- After I'd cried it out I thought just go in there and make videos.
- Was it a mistake to let her eat all that sugary stuff, and should we give her what she wants now, or let her cry it out?
- Good thing his BFF was there to let his boy Jonathan cry it out on his sunburned shoulders.
- My gut says she needs to cry it out and get over it.
- Back then women had easy access to a family member to cry it out with, babysit, share recipes, or borrow a cup of sugar.
- She faced heartbreak head-on and couldn't help but cry it out.
- I just said: "You're embarrassing yourself, lad," and let him cry it out.
- There's nothing right about allowing a 5 month old to cry it out in order for him to sleep on his own.
- Go and cry it out on your mama's lap.
- 1.1A method of sleep training in which a young child is left to fall asleep on their own and is not immediately comforted when they cry.
parents have been doing cry-it-out for generations as modifier she created strategies to help parents thrive without resorting to cry-it-out sleep training Example sentencesExamples - I thought that I wouldn't be able to do it because "sleep training" in the cry-it-out sense sounded incredibly harsh to me.
- Parents use cry-it-out techniques with infants, to train them to sleep in the "right" way (alone, at night).
- All of you who are saying that cry-it-out is emotionally harmful, could you cite your peer-reviewed studies on the subject?
- Mainstream parenting media are asserting once again that the cry-it-out sleep paradigm is harmless to babies.
- Many schools of thought for parents still stress scheduling sleep and forcing children to sleep by themselves (the cry-it out method).
- The problem with using this logic to support cry-it-out practices and advising other parents to follow suit is this describes the minority experience.
- Parents have been doing cry-it-out for generations, usually with no long-term damage.
- A world of experts and journalists tell parents about the safety of "controlled crying" or "cry-it-out" techniques to make babies sleep.
Disparage one's own efforts or products. those in racing should go forward together and stop crying stinking fish Example sentencesExamples - Those contemporary English liberals and intellectuals who cry stinking fish in their own backyard, and celebrate every ethnic identity but their own, do so out of the same deep sense of superiority as their forebears, but it is today a superiority which they cannot bring themselves to acknowledge to themselves; that would be racism, and indeed it is.
- If the examples aren't forthcoming, then maybe his criticism is cheating, by crying stinking fish with nary a fishbone or cacase in sight.
- This is not a question of Labor crying stinking fish or being worried about the result or whatever.
- Optimists and apologists for Britain's troubles bravely insist: ‘I'm not going to cry stinking fish.’
- The companies involved are not going to cry stinking fish for sell.
informal Used to express one's irritation or impatience. why do you have to take everything so personally, for crying out loud? Example sentencesExamples - Oh for crying out loud, it's just gone 4am and I haven't slept a wink.
- How hard is it to rinse the plate and place it in the dishwasher for crying out loud?
- Oh for crying out loud, guys, could you be any more deliberately ignorant?
- The man is a multi-billionaire with mansions all over the world, for crying out loud.
- They act as though only religious conservatives have families, for crying out loud.
- It's raising money for charity, for crying out loud, what's the problem?
- So for crying out loud, turn down the microphone level!
- I mean, for crying out loud, what kind of person could support such a policy?
- I would say If you're going to write stories about your teachers at least make them unrecognizable, for crying out loud!
- Take the subsidies off trucking and get them back on rail, for crying out loud.
1(of hounds) baying in keen pursuit. the fox broke and the hounds followed in full cry Example sentencesExamples - She explained: ‘The pleasure I get from hunting is derived from seeing and hearing the pack in full cry, following the fox's scent.’
- Yet as the mists rose over the Scottish Borders last week, the Buccleuch Hunt, as it has been for centuries, was in full cry.
- The women then set off like a pack of hounds in full cry after this cockerel.
- Later still, the hounds were taken to gorse a few hundred yards from the same road near Hatchet Pond from where they hunted the fox in full cry.
- A stream of hounds flow in full cry across the field, the huntsman, Richard Emmott, on foot behind.
- 1.1Expressing an opinion loudly and forcefully.
the prime minister was in full cry with warnings against the plots of the Americans Example sentencesExamples - The mob will be in full cry for the early departure of the prime minister.
- Before long he was in full cry, with a heart full of righteous indignation and a head full of steam, and he had help too.
- So it is not surprising that she should be in full cry, trying to defend her position.
- As these young babes came squalling into the world, the suffragettes were in full cry, campaigning for a say in running the country.
- The British press has been in full cry on a marginal issue.
- Paddy is a truly amusing caricature of the blustering paranoid right in full cry.
- Groups on the far Left, led by the radicals, were in full cry, demanding thorough investigation of the scandal and exposure of all the guilty men.
- The British media is in full cry of outrage and indignation - this time against the most unlikely target, the Home Secretary.
- Media commentators were in full cry against the UN.
- It is worth noting, however, that the cynics are already in full cry about the alleged quality of western fly-fishing.
Phrasal Verbs Go back on a promise or fail to keep to an arrangement. we were going to Spain together and he cried off at the last moment Example sentencesExamples - He suffered the injury at Halifax a fortnight ago, cried off ten minutes before kick-off last Saturday and isn't fit yet.
- Every time that I was selected, I came down with an injury and had to cry off.
- Under pressure from Narbonne, he cried off Scotland's 2000 tour to New Zealand in order to finish the French season.
- I was supposed to be going down the pub with my mate Alan, but he cried off, pleading exhaustion.
- That said, Wimbledon won't be the same without Anna Kournikova who has cried off through injury.
- A good few who declared they would march in protest at the abomination cried off with a variety of weak excuses.
- Mr Cannon had been due to open the event, but cried off at the last minute after being offered two gigs in Spain.
- An officer from Wiltshire County Council's road safety department was due to come and show the crossing patrol officer how to use it, but he cried off at the last moment.
- But history shows that he cried off at half-time having pulled a stomach muscle.
- A cause for concern for Town Celtic came when regular keeper Declan O'Loughlin had to cry off injured.
- Casey was selected for last Sunday's game against Donegal which Westmeath lost by two points but was forced to cry off and was replaced by Declan Murphy.
- Today I'm frantically trying to find a plasterer as the one we had booked has cried off.
- It may have been because he'd cried off the previous Scotland fixture - the last of the trial matches - with an injury.
- The 38-year-old from Philadelphia has been called up with a week's notice after Australian Justin Rowsell cried off with a calf problem.
- For the second week in a row Trojans Reserves found themselves without a game as their opposition cried off.
- Wicklow also had their problems when David Moran failed a fitness test while Michael O'Brien also cried off through injury.
- Ten days ago you were supposed to do a job, but you cried off.
- However, it was a disappointment to find out that the visiting side had cried off at 11 am.
- He and I went to Venice and Florence together too, and he was also supposed to be part of our house-share just outside Sienna one year but cried off due to pressures of work.
- It was only going to be a flying visit, but Jon and Trevor (and Paul, too, in the end, who had been on the verge of crying off on account of illness, so it's a good job I bought extra cakes) stayed for a couple of hours.
Synonyms back out, pull out, cancel, withdraw, beg off, excuse oneself change one's mind, go back on one's word, break one's promise informal get cold feet, cop out, wimp out North American informal crap out
Demand as a self-evident requirement or solution. the scheme cries out for reform Example sentencesExamples - The fact that these are precisely the issues that most cry out for free and open debate seems to matter not at all.
- The problems are the shared responsibility of humankind and cry out for solutions that, like the problems themselves, also cross frontiers.
- This is the sort of outdoor sports clothing that women have been crying out for - something feminine and well styled.
- I wish he were with us now; our times cry out for someone with Orwell's gifts of clear-eyed observation and analysis.
- Much of the evidence presented cries out for reforms.
- After two fairly ghastly days at work, a dose of high culture was exactly what my frazzled out little brain was crying out for.
- The initial response suggests it is the kind of thing that the game has been crying out for.
- None of what has happened cries out for radical reform.
- The game is crying out for one governing body that is both streamlined and fully accountable to the clubs.
- It's a deeply unsatisfactory system, and one which cries out for reform - though not in the direction desired by the free marketeers.
- They cry out for solutions that, like the problems themselves, also cross frontiers.
- It is a facility the town is crying out for and one that will be warmly welcomed by virtually everyone.
- Yet, despite his awareness of the literature across regional and national boundaries, his essays cry out for further comparative scholarship.
- We want to give Skipton girls a real chance to compete for every kind of job - especially skills the country is crying out for.
- And we are crying out for more leisure and other amenities in what is still a very deprived area.
- Stewart and his wife Linda now look certain to create the kind of global telecoms company that Scotland is crying out for.
- But, while his play attacks residual imperialism and liberal naivete, it fictionalises a story that cries out for more direct factual treatment.
- Infrastructure is something we are crying out for and is sadly lacking in many parts.
- Gale also comes into her own, her fleeting portrayal of woman-wronged a moving mix of innocence and patience that cries out for more stage time.
- This country is still crying out for an effective political system that responds to them and listens to the people.
Synonyms require, demand, need, necessitate, call for want
Praise (or disparage) someone or something. when one of them does something wrong, they cry down the lot Synonyms belittle, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, downgrade, play down, deflate, trivialize, minimize, make light of, treat lightly, undervalue, underrate, underestimate
Origin Middle English (in the sense 'ask for earnestly or loudly'): from Old French crier (verb), cri (noun), from Latin quiritare 'raise a public outcry', literally 'call on the Quirites (Roman citizens) for help'. The word cry is first recorded with the meanings ‘ask for earnestly’, ‘ask for loudly’. It comes via French from Latin quiritare ‘raise a public outcry’, literally ‘call on the Quirites (Roman citizens) for help’. Early examples of cry centre around sound—sometimes in sorrow or distress. The association with tears is recorded from around the mid 16th century. Decry (early 17th century) originally had the sense ‘decrease the value of coins by royal proclamation’.
Rhymes ally, Altai, apply, assai, awry, ay, aye, Baha'i, belie, bi, Bligh, buy, by, bye, bye-bye, chi, Chiangmai, Ciskei, comply, Cy, Dai, defy, deny, Di, die, do-or-die, dry, Dubai, dye, espy, eye, fie, fly, forbye, fry, Frye, goodbye (US goodby), guy, hereby, hi, hie, high, I, imply, I-spy, July, kai, lie, lye, Mackay, misapply, my, nearby, nigh, Nye, outfly, passer-by, phi, pi, pie, ply, pry, psi, Qinghai, rai, rely, rocaille, rye, scry, serai, shanghai, shy, sigh, sky, Skye, sky-high, sly, spin-dry, spry, spy, sty, Sukhotai, supply, Tai, Thai, thereby, thigh, thy, tie, Transkei, try, tumble-dry, underlie, Versailles, Vi, vie, whereby, why, wry, Wye, xi, Xingtai, Yantai Definition of cry in US English: cryverbkrīkraɪ [no object]1Shed tears, typically as an expression of distress, pain, or sorrow. don't cry—it'll be all right with object you'll cry tears of joy Example sentencesExamples - In February this year, social workers at the airport reported that she had cried hysterically for hours.
- She cried all night and refused to speak to her father.
- It was not supposed to end with her slumped on an Athens pavement, crying bitter tears of pain and frustration.
- Out of frustration, exhaustion, and mounting stress, I cry in the street.
- It was considered good to cry so tears were frequently shed in public by both men and women.
- She continued to cry softly on his shoulder, but there was no sadness in her tears.
- Darren and Cara understood why Mom cried that night, even if she didn't.
- Homeless and friendless, I set out into the slums, and found a quiet alleyway near an open air market to cry myself to sleep in.
- Don't be afraid to cry, as tears can baptize the soul anew.
- I cried softly into his shoulder and let him hold me and try to comfort me.
- My mom cries a lot.
- Throwing herself across her blue flower bedspread, she cried herself to sleep the first night of her period and many nights afterwards.
- He started to cry; tears of bitterness and regret for a past he couldn't change; for the love he needed taken from him so many times.
- She had always seemed so strong and had never cried in front of him.
- Woman were crying with tears of joy as men swung their children around before giving them a smothering bear hug.
- She was holding my hand and crying huge, wet tears that splashed onto my arm.
- He cried too, tears of shame for hurting her and his wife, tears of loss because just thinking about life without her made his internal organs cramp in distress.
- Now as he sat in his chair thinking about his oldest daughter, he remembered that not even in the hospital did she cry - not one tear was shed.
- There was never anybody there to wipe away her tears and she just cried alone in the dark, begging for love which never came.
- In the end, he told me, he cried too many tears, and that was why his eye began to swell.
Synonyms weep, shed tears, sob, wail, be in tears, cry one's eyes out, cry one's heart out, cry as if one's heart would break, bawl, howl, snivel, whimper, whine, squall, mewl, bleat 2Shout or scream, typically to express fear, pain, or grief. the little girl fell down and cried for her mommy Example sentencesExamples - Then the last of my energy was gone and I collapsed across the desk, crying out at the pain in my broken arm.
- James was being frequently sick and crying out in pain.
- Alexander cried out in anguish, but was unable to move away from a final blow.
- She sat in her cell, trying to hold it in, but still crying out in pain.
- In the confusion, a voice cried out through the tunnel.
- Myra was crying out now with pain as the child was being born.
- She cried aloud in agony and clutched her jacket close.
- He tried to regain his footing, but his right leg gave out and he tumbled back into the dirt, crying out in pain.
- She cringed as the light moved closer and bit her lip to keep from crying out in fear.
- I felt something hit me in my stomach, and landed flat on my back, crying out in pain.
- Their mouths were gagged to prevent them from screaming or crying out, and the girl had tears down her face.
- She spent many an agonizing night biting her lip to keep from crying out in pain as he relentlessly beat her up in his drunkenness.
- The children cried out for help as the ice crack more along the surface.
- Abby went sprawling a few feet away, landing hard and crying out in pain and fear.
- And I continued to fall, crying out desperately for help, but knowing that none would ever come.
- He bit hard onto his tongue to keep from crying out from the pain to come.
- One of them cried out, his voice echoing through the halls.
- He said it was then he first heard a bang and saw one of the officers on the floor crying out in pain.
- The activists could hear women moaning and crying out in pain.
- Kim's eyes filled with tears involuntarily and she cried out in pain.
Synonyms call, shout, exclaim, sing out, yell, shriek, scream, screech, bawl, bellow, roar, whoop - 2.1 Say something loudly in an excited or anguished tone of voice.
“Where will it end?” he cried out Example sentencesExamples - Feet could be heard pounding down the steps to his quarters and a voice cried out, ‘Maurice!’
- "Let my right hand wither, " more than 300,000 voices cried out in unison.
- ‘I deserve every pain you may inflict on me,’ she cried, tears welling up in her eyes.
- And saying this he cried out with a great voice: Lazarus, come out here.
- Oh I am so, so sorry about the weather, cried the marketing manager of Lilianfels hotel wringing her hands, when the driver dropped me off.
- "What? " the children cried in unison.
- What luck, cried the student and plucked the great flower.
- ‘If someone sees you, they will execute the whole street,’ he cries, pushing him away.
- Suddenly a voice cried out to her in this manner: Get up quickly!
Synonyms utter suddenly, exclaim, ejaculate, tell, babble, jabber, call out, cry out, burst out with, come out with - 2.2with object (of a street trader) shout out the name of (goods for sale)
there was a bustle of activity as vendors cried their wares, offering shellfish to potential buyers Example sentencesExamples - The name Sally Lunn (Lunn is more usual than Lun) is said to commemorate a woman baker of that name who had a pastry-cook's shop and cried her wares in the street.
- Merchants were crying out their wares in the morning air, each straining to make their voices heard over the music and laughter.
- He notes that Hamilton often caught his sellers in the act of selling rather than crying their goods.
- Store owners and merchants were crying out their wares or conducting business.
- In the little trading towns, the traders sat in their shops, far too weary to cry their wares.
3(of a bird or other animal) make a loud characteristic call. the wild birds cried out over the water Example sentencesExamples - A bird cried in the distance, then was joined by another.
- One day, a resident chimp cried out, signaling that snakes were present.
- The bird cried out and thunder echoed back from the sky.
- The breeze drifting through my window is warm, and somewhere I hear a bird crying over the water.
- Overhead, a bird cried, and in the distance, another answered.
- An owl cried out.
- When very young, the cubs cry when afraid and hum when contented.
- And far, far away to the north-east a wolf cried.
- Again the dogs cried, this time closer, and caused the horse to spook.
- Somewhere a bird cried, and up on the hill the tinkling sound of a cowbell rang.
- Birds of various kinds cried out as they evacuated from their resting-places.
- The eight birds cried wildly and fluttered over them in fright.
- The bird cried out, thrashing its wings.
nounkrīkraɪ 1A loud inarticulate shout or scream expressing a powerful feeling or emotion. Example sentencesExamples - He gave an inarticulate cry and attempted to wedge himself further into the corner he was occupying.
- Shouts and cries and screams filled the room, creating a wave of noise that crashed down on James' ears, leaving him feeling numb and deaf.
- I gave a strangled cry before bursting into tears on Adelle's shoulder.
- The shouting grew louder as multiple screams and cries rose from the end of the hall.
- A sharp cry tore itself from her lips as she threw herself onto the floor outside, her head bowed as tears fled from her eyes.
- I let out a small cry and a few tears rolled down my cheeks.
- With an inarticulate cry of triumph, he tossed his cane away and stood effortlessly.
- The baby let out a lusty cry and we all shed tears of joy.
- Instead of using music, the scenes are accompanied by real sound: incomprehensible murmuring, shouts and cries.
- When I finally got up all I could see was smoke, and I could hear the cries and screams of the survivors.
- Back at the airport, there were screams and shrieks, cries and prayers as others witnessed the crash.
- The village which had been peaceful for centuries was suddenly filled with cries and shouts.
- The prisoners were panicking, and there were loud shouts and cries of fear.
- Crouched over in agony, Ruth's terrible cry of betrayal seems torn from the depths of her soul.
- He slumped against the door and listened for a cry or a scream or anything at all, but when none came he realized how much shock she must be in.
- She went down with a cry of pain as tears sprang to her eyes.
- Then without warning there were roars, cries, and shouts.
- His tendency to strut around the court, pump his fists and shout cries of celebration will drive women who love mischief into a frenzy.
- There was a scream, a shouted cry, from somewhere as the light was completely shut off.
- His cries of despair brought tears to Jennifer's eyes.
Synonyms call, shout, exclamation, yell, shriek, scream, screech, bawl, bellow, roar, whoop - 1.1 A loud excited utterance of a word or words.
there was a cry of “Silence!” Example sentencesExamples - Impassioned cries of: ‘We will shed blood to save the Datta Peetha’ were raised.
- It was like you see in the films - you hear the whistle and the bang, there's a cry of ‘incoming’ and everybody gets down on the ground.
- It's the hub of village life and when you go there at night, expect some of the elderly worse-for-wear locals to greet you with cries of ‘Hello, my brother’ when they discover you're Irish.
- Local residents danced in the streets celebrating the decision with cries of ‘Execute the vile meditators!’
Synonyms call, shout, exclamation, yell, shriek, scream, screech, bawl, bellow, roar, whoop - 1.2 The call of a street trader selling goods.
the city comes to life after 10 p.m., with the din of car horns, and the cries of street hawkers Example sentencesExamples - Visitors are battered by a cacophony of cries by hawkers trying to flog a variety of the ubiquitous plastic trinkets and squeaking toys.
- The cries of street vendors hawking their merchandise rose above the hubbub.
- Despite the lights and the trains and the noise, it is quite easy to imagine the cries of the hawkers in a different age.
- I have just been reading the Keith Waterhouse column, Echoes from the past, about the cries of street traders.
- In the weavers' cottage, weavers would be hard at work, and the streets thronged with people, where visitors would hear the cries of street traders selling their wares.
- The shrill cries of the vendors, pursuing passers-by to buy their wares rang through my ears.
- 1.3 An urgent appeal or entreaty.
fund-raisers have issued a cry for help Example sentencesExamples - Often the messages have been copied to a number of us to ensure his cry for help has been registered.
- So too was his cry for reform silenced the medieval way.
- The man gave a faint cry for help but I covered his mouth before he could.
- Newrbidge primary schools have issued an urgent cry for help as the schools crisis in the town deepens.
- Thank you for your quick response to the cry for attention I issued upon my blog.
- The club who has issued a cry for help says it will disband within the next three weeks, unless immediate support from parents and supporters comes forward.
- On the day she was killed, we heard a scream, a cry for help.
- The likely chairman of the proposed new York rugby league club, Roger Dixon, has issued a rallying cry for fans to keep doing their bit for the cause.
- The woman's desperate cries for help to the emergency services had been recorded.
- A cry for help sounded through the house as Charlotte, described at Winchester Crown Court as an awkward feeder, stopped breathing.
- John Pews, 82, was buried under his collapsed shed for an hour before his cries for help were heard by a neighbour last month.
- She began to scream, but her cries for help were muffled.
- His urgent vocal-style demands your attention like a cry for help.
- Football-supporting MPs have issued a rallying cry for ‘all associated’ with the game to pull together and save York City.
- Then, the howling in the trees was their plaintive cries for help.
Synonyms appeal, plea, entreaty, urgent request, cry from the heart - 1.4 A demand or opinion expressed by many people.
peace became the popular cry Example sentencesExamples - A rallying cry has gone out to save football pitches from the council's axe.
- One group has proposed that he can openly join the national cry for urgent action by the Government and its many arms which exist to deal specifically with the problem.
- The most frequent cry is to demand the whereabouts of the powerful foreign reporting that they remember from the 1960s.
- Soon, international opinion took up the cry and the authorities reacted quickly.
- The match also almost certainly ended the cry from fans demanding a return to Sunday action.
Synonyms maxim, saying, proverb, aphorism, adage, saw, axiom, formula, expression, phrase, rule, dictum, precept, epigram, gnome
2The loud characteristic call of a bird or other animal. Example sentencesExamples - There was silence in the meadow for a few minutes, except for the cries of distant birds.
- It is in fact one of those animal cries that is both scary and scared in equal parts, a shriek that would make an intruder really think twice about going any further into a burrow.
- The next thing I knew, a balmy breeze played across my face, and the soft cries of birds drifted to my ears.
- A few cries came from nocturnal birds, hunting rodents.
- She was aware of every small noise around her, from the smallest twig snapping underfoot to the cries of foreign birds.
- At his father's prompting, the little boy began to mimic the birds' cries.
- Abby looked skyward and was greeted by the cry of an angry bird, warning her away from his meal.
- Imagining their hoots to be the cry of some dangerous animal, she had spent nearly two terrified days on the run from her rescuers.
- These noisy animals have several types of cries and bloodcurdling howls.
- Whistles and cries came from the birds as they continued forward.
- Behind her she heard the cries of frightened animals.
- Suddenly I heard a loud bird cry as a large bird of prey flew towards me.
- Ranging from the chirp of crickets to the loud, booming cry of indigenous animals, the wilderness is truly alive with the sounds of fauna.
- In the distance, one or two unnamed birds send out a cry from the distant dense forests.
- The air is full of bird cries and one may even spot a few deer.
- Animal cries and howls wailed through the valley.
- I could hear strange animal cries; some so deep and loud they sent chills up my spine.
- Yet the only target they fired on was an unidentified animal, whose cries then kept the unit awake all night.
- The cries of topical birds and animals could be heard very clearly in the night air.
- McBride recorded more than 100 hours of sounds and will listen to the audio tapes in the next month, in the hope of hearing the bird's cry.
Synonyms trill, trilling, song, birdsong, warbling, chirp, chirping, chirrup, chirruping, chirr, chirring, cheep, cheeping, twitter, twittering, tweet, tweeting, whistle, whistling, chatter, chattering, squeak, squeaking, pipe, piping, peep, peeping, call, calling 3A spell of weeping. I still have a cry, sometimes, when I realize that my mother is dead Example sentencesExamples - I put my arms down on the computer desk, and leaned my head down on them to have a cry.
- She had a tight feeling in her chest that she felt could only be relieved by a good cry or a piercing scream.
- He took an awful long time coming back, because he had to keep stopping to have a cry!
- After my initial cry, I don't think I shed another tear for Steve.
- I have a cry while I slice the onions.
- If you are committed to removing all the tangles no matter how long it takes, then give yourself permission to get angry and have a good cry or scream.
- Sometimes there is nothing like a good cry.
Synonyms sob, weep, crying fit, fit of crying
Phrases cry one's eyes (or heart) out Weep bitterly and at length. Example sentencesExamples - At this point i was crying my eyes out and couldn't say anything to prove him wrong because he was completely right.
- With this I stormed into my room and slammed the door, and proceeded to cry my heart out.
- You spend your days and nights crying your eyes out.
- It must have been a very sad sight to see four grown men standing on the docks crying their eyes out.
- The relatives of the victims were crying their eyes out too.
- A man is walking along the canal bank when he sees a little boy crying his heart out, so he stops and asks him why.
- I can remember sitting in the bathtub, crying my eyes out.
- After the recording, I'd go home and cry my eyes out.
- Her husband John came in to find her crying her eyes out.
- I thrown myself into Chloe's bed, hugging her doll tight, crying my heart out with bitterness.
Synonyms weep, shed tears, sob, wail, be in tears, cry one's eyes out, cry one's heart out, cry as if one's heart would break, bawl, howl, snivel, whimper, whine, squall, mewl, bleat
Ask for what is unattainable or impossible. Example sentencesExamples - When the baby cries for the moon, you do not give him what he wants.
- If she cried for the moon, he'd borrow every ladder in the parish and lash 'em together to get up.
- When my brother was a baby, he cried for the moon and would not be comforted.
- I'm all in favour of ambition but I think when he says he'll be a millionaire by the time he's 25, he's simply crying for the moon.
- I haven't cried for the moon, and have been sensible in my demands; but there has nevertheless been this sense of boredom with everything, with my family and with my work.
- He cried for the moon by complaining that the media failed to put this speech on their front pages.
- His life is apt to appear to him a constant succession of small checks to his wishes, which he finds opposed either by the constitution of things, as when he cries for the moon, or the will of his elders, as when he is forbidden to sit up till midnight.
Protest strongly about a real or imagined wrong or injustice. Example sentencesExamples - Protest and counter-protest occurred, with the Germans crying foul and furiously questioning the rules.
- But those who support her opponent are crying foul.
- A group of outdoors enthusiasts who built secret cabins on Mount Fromme and have been using them for the past 15 years are crying foul over a North Vancouver District plan to tear down their forest hideaways.
- Italy fared no better, but they did not depart without a moan, crying foul after an honest 2-2 draw between Sweden and Denmark ended their hopes of progressing to the knock-out stages.
- The controversial cover of the University of Winnipeg's creative writing journal has some contributors, editors and students crying foul.
- But the opposition cried foul, accusing the government of manipulating the votes.
- Not surprisingly the opposition is crying foul and is calling for a national referendum on the matter given that the minority Labour government is reliant on a handful of Green votes to get the legislation up.
- Political parties have cried foul at the king's move, calling it an unconstitutional and undemocratic step.
- So there's no reason for these people to be crying foul.
- This sounds eminently reassuring, but I cannot believe that we will get through the forthcoming election without somebody, somewhere crying foul.
A passionate and honest appeal or protest. Example sentencesExamples - This is my cry from the heart on Australia Day, for right now, I am concerned that we are seeking to squash the hopes of people who need it most - desperate people heading for Australia, an island of hope.
- It's actually a cry from the heart for the Labor Party as a whole to gather its resources, its intelligence, its energy and it's passion.
- It will be a cry from the heart as much as a plea to open the wallet.
- I read that statement as a kind of cry from the heart.
- There is no better evidence that both Tresy and Tim are right than the agonized cry from the heart this young woman shows us in her latest post, dated today.
- The letter from his mother, who knows Tom has died, is a cry from the heart for him not to go to the front.
- It's an indelible moment - a cry from the heart of a woman who would never let anyone see her tears over her decision to remain ‘merely’ a maid so that her sometimes ungrateful children can get ahead.
- They co-wrote this song, a plaintive cry from the heart, which helped Gaye to find some measure of redemption before his tragic death in 1984.
- It's a cry from the heart for the West, united in righteous and understandable anger, to pause for thought before taking the next fateful step.
- The film is a shattering cry from the heart but it is rendered all the more effective by its sense of calm, controlled restraint.
Synonyms call, shout, exclamation, yell, shriek, scream, screech, bawl, bellow, roar, whoop
1Weep until one is soothed or exhausted. he broke your heart—cry it out, girl at 18–24 months, we did have to let our son cry it out a little Example sentencesExamples - Was it a mistake to let her eat all that sugary stuff, and should we give her what she wants now, or let her cry it out?
- She faced heartbreak head-on and couldn't help but cry it out.
- Back then women had easy access to a family member to cry it out with, babysit, share recipes, or borrow a cup of sugar.
- Go and cry it out on your mama's lap.
- There's nothing right about allowing a 5 month old to cry it out in order for him to sleep on his own.
- I just said: "You're embarrassing yourself, lad," and let him cry it out.
- My gut says she needs to cry it out and get over it.
- Children have been crying it out for generations.
- Good thing his BFF was there to let his boy Jonathan cry it out on his sunburned shoulders.
- After I'd cried it out I thought just go in there and make videos.
- 1.1A method of sleep training in which a young child is left to fall asleep on their own and is not immediately comforted when they cry.
parents have been doing cry-it-out for generations as modifier she created strategies to help parents thrive without resorting to cry-it-out sleep training Example sentencesExamples - A world of experts and journalists tell parents about the safety of "controlled crying" or "cry-it-out" techniques to make babies sleep.
- All of you who are saying that cry-it-out is emotionally harmful, could you cite your peer-reviewed studies on the subject?
- Parents use cry-it-out techniques with infants, to train them to sleep in the "right" way (alone, at night).
- The problem with using this logic to support cry-it-out practices and advising other parents to follow suit is this describes the minority experience.
- Mainstream parenting media are asserting once again that the cry-it-out sleep paradigm is harmless to babies.
- Many schools of thought for parents still stress scheduling sleep and forcing children to sleep by themselves (the cry-it out method).
- I thought that I wouldn't be able to do it because "sleep training" in the cry-it-out sense sounded incredibly harsh to me.
- Parents have been doing cry-it-out for generations, usually with no long-term damage.
informal Used to express one's irritation or impatience. why do you have to take everything so personally, for crying out loud? Example sentencesExamples - Oh for crying out loud, guys, could you be any more deliberately ignorant?
- It's raising money for charity, for crying out loud, what's the problem?
- Take the subsidies off trucking and get them back on rail, for crying out loud.
- How hard is it to rinse the plate and place it in the dishwasher for crying out loud?
- Oh for crying out loud, it's just gone 4am and I haven't slept a wink.
- So for crying out loud, turn down the microphone level!
- The man is a multi-billionaire with mansions all over the world, for crying out loud.
- I mean, for crying out loud, what kind of person could support such a policy?
- They act as though only religious conservatives have families, for crying out loud.
- I would say If you're going to write stories about your teachers at least make them unrecognizable, for crying out loud!
(of hounds) baying in keen pursuit. Example sentencesExamples - A stream of hounds flow in full cry across the field, the huntsman, Richard Emmott, on foot behind.
- She explained: ‘The pleasure I get from hunting is derived from seeing and hearing the pack in full cry, following the fox's scent.’
- Yet as the mists rose over the Scottish Borders last week, the Buccleuch Hunt, as it has been for centuries, was in full cry.
- Later still, the hounds were taken to gorse a few hundred yards from the same road near Hatchet Pond from where they hunted the fox in full cry.
- The women then set off like a pack of hounds in full cry after this cockerel.
Phrasal Verbs Go back on a promise or fail to keep to an arrangement. we were going to Spain together and he cried off at the last moment Example sentencesExamples - Mr Cannon had been due to open the event, but cried off at the last minute after being offered two gigs in Spain.
- It may have been because he'd cried off the previous Scotland fixture - the last of the trial matches - with an injury.
- Ten days ago you were supposed to do a job, but you cried off.
- Casey was selected for last Sunday's game against Donegal which Westmeath lost by two points but was forced to cry off and was replaced by Declan Murphy.
- I was supposed to be going down the pub with my mate Alan, but he cried off, pleading exhaustion.
- He suffered the injury at Halifax a fortnight ago, cried off ten minutes before kick-off last Saturday and isn't fit yet.
- Every time that I was selected, I came down with an injury and had to cry off.
- That said, Wimbledon won't be the same without Anna Kournikova who has cried off through injury.
- He and I went to Venice and Florence together too, and he was also supposed to be part of our house-share just outside Sienna one year but cried off due to pressures of work.
- The 38-year-old from Philadelphia has been called up with a week's notice after Australian Justin Rowsell cried off with a calf problem.
- For the second week in a row Trojans Reserves found themselves without a game as their opposition cried off.
- Wicklow also had their problems when David Moran failed a fitness test while Michael O'Brien also cried off through injury.
- A cause for concern for Town Celtic came when regular keeper Declan O'Loughlin had to cry off injured.
- A good few who declared they would march in protest at the abomination cried off with a variety of weak excuses.
- But history shows that he cried off at half-time having pulled a stomach muscle.
- An officer from Wiltshire County Council's road safety department was due to come and show the crossing patrol officer how to use it, but he cried off at the last moment.
- Under pressure from Narbonne, he cried off Scotland's 2000 tour to New Zealand in order to finish the French season.
- Today I'm frantically trying to find a plasterer as the one we had booked has cried off.
- However, it was a disappointment to find out that the visiting side had cried off at 11 am.
- It was only going to be a flying visit, but Jon and Trevor (and Paul, too, in the end, who had been on the verge of crying off on account of illness, so it's a good job I bought extra cakes) stayed for a couple of hours.
Synonyms back out, pull out, cancel, withdraw, beg off, excuse oneself
Demand as a self-evident requirement or solution. the present system cries out for reform Example sentencesExamples - Gale also comes into her own, her fleeting portrayal of woman-wronged a moving mix of innocence and patience that cries out for more stage time.
- It's a deeply unsatisfactory system, and one which cries out for reform - though not in the direction desired by the free marketeers.
- And we are crying out for more leisure and other amenities in what is still a very deprived area.
- The initial response suggests it is the kind of thing that the game has been crying out for.
- Yet, despite his awareness of the literature across regional and national boundaries, his essays cry out for further comparative scholarship.
- This is the sort of outdoor sports clothing that women have been crying out for - something feminine and well styled.
- Stewart and his wife Linda now look certain to create the kind of global telecoms company that Scotland is crying out for.
- The game is crying out for one governing body that is both streamlined and fully accountable to the clubs.
- We want to give Skipton girls a real chance to compete for every kind of job - especially skills the country is crying out for.
- This country is still crying out for an effective political system that responds to them and listens to the people.
- Infrastructure is something we are crying out for and is sadly lacking in many parts.
- I wish he were with us now; our times cry out for someone with Orwell's gifts of clear-eyed observation and analysis.
- They cry out for solutions that, like the problems themselves, also cross frontiers.
- None of what has happened cries out for radical reform.
- But, while his play attacks residual imperialism and liberal naivete, it fictionalises a story that cries out for more direct factual treatment.
- It is a facility the town is crying out for and one that will be warmly welcomed by virtually everyone.
- Much of the evidence presented cries out for reforms.
- The fact that these are precisely the issues that most cry out for free and open debate seems to matter not at all.
- The problems are the shared responsibility of humankind and cry out for solutions that, like the problems themselves, also cross frontiers.
- After two fairly ghastly days at work, a dose of high culture was exactly what my frazzled out little brain was crying out for.
Synonyms require, demand, need, necessitate, call for
Praise or extol someone or something. Synonyms belittle, denigrate, deprecate, depreciate, downgrade, play down, deflate, trivialize, minimize, make light of, treat lightly, undervalue, underrate, underestimate
cry someone/something down Disparage or belittle someone or something. Example sentencesExamples - Optimists and apologists for Britain's troubles bravely insist: ‘I'm not going to cry stinking fish.’
- Those contemporary English liberals and intellectuals who cry stinking fish in their own backyard, and celebrate every ethnic identity but their own, do so out of the same deep sense of superiority as their forebears, but it is today a superiority which they cannot bring themselves to acknowledge to themselves; that would be racism, and indeed it is.
- This is not a question of Labor crying stinking fish or being worried about the result or whatever.
- If the examples aren't forthcoming, then maybe his criticism is cheating, by crying stinking fish with nary a fishbone or cacase in sight.
- The companies involved are not going to cry stinking fish for sell.
Origin Middle English (in the sense ‘ask for earnestly or loudly’): from Old French crier (verb), cri (noun), from Latin quiritare ‘raise a public outcry’, literally ‘call on the Quirites (Roman citizens) for help’. |