Tearful is an English word with synonyms like liquid or dolorous. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Tearful meaning
- Accompanied by tears; crying, or about to cry.
- Sorrowful.
Synonyms of Tearful
Using Tearful
- The main meaning on this page is: Accompanied by tears; crying, or about to cry. | Sorrowful.
- Useful related words include: liquid, lachrymose, dolourous, dolorous.
- In the example corpus, tearful often appears in combinations such as: and tearful, tearful and, in tearful.
Context around Tearful
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 10 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Tearful
- In this selection, "tearful" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, become, included, multiply, testimony, peralta and stacey stand out and add context to how "tearful" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a tearful peralta told and a tearful stacey franks. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "tearful" sits close to words such as accusers, analysing and artifact, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with tearful
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I need help," a tearful McCurdy said. (7 words)
Love you, Daddy,” a tearful Geronimo said as she finished her song. (12 words)
Many became tearful as speaker after speaker read the names of the victims. (13 words)
Ferrante was convicted after an emotional, weeklong trial that included tearful testimony from Racciato’s father, Phil, who found his son’s body on Christmas Day 2020 in the parking lot of a Lower Nazareth Township hotel. (37 words)
He said: "She started facing this toxic environment and she started getting a bit more worried and tearful and sometimes when she was coming back from work will say that people are belittling her and demeaning her. (37 words)
Credit Suisse chairman Axel Lehmann said on Tuesday he was "truly sorry" that the beleaguered bank could not be saved as he faced angry and tearful shareholders whose money has gone up in smoke. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Afterward, a tearful and emotional Smith said Carlson and Anthony are running on fumes.
A tearful Peralta told police he didn’t know why he had killed Blodgett.
A tearful Stacey Franks admitted she was 'taken aback' by his death while said she was 'heartbroken', and Aaron Renfree and Jay Perry also paid tribute.
At one stage she appeared to become tearful and wiped her eyes with a tissue, before indicating she was ok to continue.
Credit Suisse chairman Axel Lehmann said on Tuesday he was "truly sorry" that the beleaguered bank could not be saved as he faced angry and tearful shareholders whose money has gone up in smoke.
Definitely not how I envisioned this last one going," a tearful Rapinoe said after the game.
Ferrante was convicted after an emotional, weeklong trial that included tearful testimony from Racciato’s father, Phil, who found his son’s body on Christmas Day 2020 in the parking lot of a Lower Nazareth Township hotel.
He said: "She started facing this toxic environment and she started getting a bit more worried and tearful and sometimes when she was coming back from work will say that people are belittling her and demeaning her.
If you’re the kind of Sag who gets emotional easily you may find this a difficult week – or a tearful one at least.
In a pivotal mythology episode where alien hybrids multiply, tearful hospital bedside scenes with a fading Penny and terrified Scully are decidedly human.
In a tearful Senate address earlier, independent senator Lidia Thorpe said she had been subjected to “sexual comments”, cornered in a stairwell, “inappropriately touched” and “propositioned” by “powerful men”.
In a tearful speech after receiving his award, Dumbuya said: “Things like this don’t happen to people where I’m from.
In contrast to Archbishop Welby's stance, the Archbishop of York said he will offer the prayers which he believes puts the church in a "better place", becoming tearful as he made his statement.
I need help," a tearful McCurdy said.
It makes me tearful to even think of it as we didn't think we were going to make it.
Justin and Alee watched through tearful eyes as 22 people came forward to do just that.
Like Blasey Ford in her tearful testimony, Ramirez remembered laughter as a prominent memory in the alleged incident.
Love you, Daddy,” a tearful Geronimo said as she finished her song.
Many became tearful as speaker after speaker read the names of the victims.
Marc Williams, head of media at Basford United said of his passing: “I was saddened and tearful when I read of Malcolm’s passing.
Common combinations with tearful
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and tearful 16×
- tearful and 8×
- in tearful 8×
- was tearful 7×
- tearful as 6×
- tearful when 6×
- tearful goodbye 6×
- her tearful 5×
- became tearful 5×
- with tearful 5×