() imp. & p. p. of Wend; -- now obsolete except as the imperfect of go, with which it has no etymological connection. See Go.
(n.) Course; way; path; journey; direction.
Example Sentences:
(1) The buses recently went up by 50p per journey, but my wages went up with national inflation which was pennies.
(2) The district’s $110bn of economic activity went up by 22% since 2007, outpacing city growth by 9% during the same period.
(3) Half the bullet got me and the other half went into a shop window across the road.
(4) BT Sport went down this route, appointing Channel 4 Sales, the TV ad sales house that represents the broadcaster and partners including UKTV.
(5) The majority of the hearts went spontaneously into ventricular fibrillation at some stage of the operation.
(6) The first source attended was a private practitioner for 53 % of the patients, another private medical establishment for 4 %, a Government chest clinic for only 11 % and another Government medical establishment for 17 %, 9 % went first to a herbalist and 5 % went to a drug store or treated themselves.
(7) His mother, meanwhile, had to issue Peyton with a series of polaroids of his own clothes showing him which ones went together.
(8) It was sent into the box and Jaap Stam's free header went towards Kaka at the far post.
(9) The local guide led us down a rough, uneven pathway, talking as he went.
(10) FBI assistant director David Bowdich said that Syed Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 27, were radicalized long before they went on a rampage at a community center in southern California last Wednesday, but would not specify whether he meant months or years.
(11) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
(12) The stiffness of the fibre first rose abruptly in response to stretch and then started to decrease linearly while the stretch went on; after the completion of stretch the stiffness decreased towards a steady value which was equal to that during the isometric tetanus at the same sarcomere length, indicating that the enhancement of isometric force is associated with decreased stiffness.
(13) The night's special award went to armed forces broadcaster, BFBS Radio, while long-standing BBC radio DJ Trevor Nelson received the top prize of the night, the gold award.
(14) I went to a reasonably good school, though I think I hated the headmaster just as much as he hated me.
(15) So when President Obama went before his country on Wednesday, this is the context in which what he had to say about his plans should be considered.
(16) Aitken was subsequently declared bankrupt and went to prison.
(17) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
(18) I'll admit to not having realised that more than £100bn would be committed to Trident – I half-remembered reading that it would cost £20bn, so went online, only to discover that the higher figure checks out .
(19) To this day, 10 patients (31%) are alive with a functioning kidney transplant, 16 (50%) are still treated by CPD awaiting a transplant, 5 have died (16%) and one went back to hemodialysis (3%).
(20) They said it shows Bergdahl, now 27, in poorer health than previous footage taken in the years since he went missing in Afghanistan on 30 June 2009.
Wept
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Weep
() imp. & p. p. of Weep.
Example Sentences:
(1) This week, he wept as he signed an executive order on gun control .
(2) He said: "I wept like a child" when Kylie Minogue said she would be in it.
(3) My friend had already climbed the same metaphorical mountain that I had just reached the summit of, and when she had reached the top she sat down and wept, much to the surprise of all her British friends.
(4) If at 14 I could foresee my future and this kind of pressure – I think it would be hard for me [to commit to it].” In the documentary, he admits to moments where he has wept and thought he couldn’t go on.
(5) On the one hand, he genuinely sees himself as the great liberator of the poor, the man who wept at Britain’s modern-day penury on Glasgow’s Easterhouse estate; on the other, he is the champion of policies that have driven some of the poorest people in society into despair.
(6) She wept for another hour before she turned to face me.
(7) But when the court adjourned for lunch, June Steenkamp could be seen shaking her head and putting an arm around another family member, while Steenkamp's friend Gina Myers openly wept.
(8) In the unsaddling area she wept uncontrollably and hugged her mother, boyfriend and her mentor and fellow team member Carl Hester, who came fifth here.
(9) Both Bob and Maureen bowed their heads and wept as a chorus of “guiltys” kept coming from the court clerk.
(10) Mothers appeared and wept for lost sons and daughters.
(11) Many wept, wiping tears off their faces as the melancholic tunes of the hymns reached them through loudspeakers.
(12) He wept openly while being interviewed pitch-side by the same TV Globo reporter (Tino Marcos) who in 2010 looked embarrassed when the keeper started choking on his own tears when prompted to discuss his fluffed attempt to punch a Wesley Sneijder cross which led to the winning goal.
(13) The day after the ruling, celebrity chef Paula Deen went on the Today show and wept over accusations of racial and sexual harassment that are destroying her empire.
(14) Bhutto's supporters at the hospital wept, smashed the glass doors and started fires around the hospital periphery.
(15) So what if Júlio César wept after flying like a bird and saving two penalties?
(16) Gary Glitter wept in the dock as he blamed a collapsing career, financial troubles and being in a “bad place” for his decision to download images of men sexually abusing young children on to his computer.
(17) "I couldn't stop crying when the final whistle went," wept their centre-half Sam Allardyce.
(18) The inscription at the foot of the cathedral's bell tower reads: "When He beheld the city, He wept over it.
(19) Earlier, during the bail hearing's third day, Pistorous wept as the defence advocate Barry Roux summed up his case.
(20) Some of the senators wept at her story, she said, and then later voted against her.