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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.

Wert


Definition:

  • () The second person singular, indicative and subjunctive moods, imperfect tense, of the verb be. It is formed from were, with the ending -t, after the analogy of wast. Now used only in solemn or poetic style.
  • (n.) A wart.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, they lose inhibitory effectiveness almost completely within a narrow zone centered at normal (1 X) levels (Pösö, A. R., Wert, J. J., Jr., and Mortimore, G.E.
  • (2) Spain's sports minister, Jose Wert, asked for "patience" given the long legal process that is likely to be ahead of the footballer.
  • (3) According to this evaluation only a single substance (methylmercury) is embryotoxic in man, a prenatal risk cannot be excluded for eight chemicals, and 18 chemicals are safe at occupational exposure limits (MAK-Werte).
  • (4) The law will regulate the rights to transmit first and second division games as well as the Copa del Rey and Super Cup competitions, the sports minister, José Ignacio Wert said.
  • (5) Next to his body was a Kalashnikov, a book on Salafism and an Islamic State flag,” said Thierry Werts, of the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office.
  • (6) For the first time exposure levels during pregnancy have been evaluated for industrial chemicals in the German list of "Maximal occupational exposure limits and biological tolerance levels of occupational chemicals 1985" (MAK-Werte-Liste).
  • (7) But preventing a child from inheriting a nasty disease gives them a more open future, not less, says Guido de Wert , professor of biomedical ethics at Maastricht University.
  • (8) Myocardial samples wert taken from the left ventricle and divided into four groups according to the number of spheres per sample.
  • (9) Wert said the Spanish leagues obtained “somewhat less than €800m” for the 2013-14 season from the worldwide sales of its audiovisual rights.
  • (10) Next to his body was a Kalashnikov, a book on Salafism and an Islamic State flag,” according to Thierry Werts, of the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office.
  • (11) "We should be honest and acknowledge that we are talking about genetic modification, that this changes the genome, and it may be transmitted to future generations," says de Wert.

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