Read full poem →Who visits with a gun, presents you birds,
Then gives a smacking buss, and cries--No words!
Or with his hound comes hallooing from the stable,
Dictionary Entry
A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
In a Sentence
“After we broke up, I retreated to my room for a good cry.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. criescries loud
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Antonyms
Poetry examples for “cries”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →If to live well means nothing but to eat;
Up, up! cries gluttony, 'tis break of day,
Go drive the deer, and drag the finny prey;
Read full poem →The constant index to old Button's wits,
'Who's here?' cries Umbra: 'Only Johnson.'[86]--'Oh!
Your slave,' and exit; but returns with Rowe:
Read full poem →4 'What well? what weapon?' Flavia cries--
'A standish, steel, and golden pen!
Read full poem →Hollow groans,
And cries of tortured ghosts!
But, hark! he strikes the golden lyre;
On a Fan of the Author's Design, in Which Was Painted the Story of Cephalus and Procris, With the Motto, 'aura Veni.'byAlexander Pope
Read full poem →While Procris panted in the secret shade;
'Come, gentle Air!' the fairer Delia cries,
While at her feet her swain expiring lies.
Read full poem →The whimpering girl, and hoarser-screaming boy,
Join to the yelping treble shrilling cries;
The scolding quean to louder notes doth rise,
Read full poem →Belinda frown'd, Thalestris call'd her prude.
'To arms, to arms!' the fierce virago cries,
And swift as lightning to the combat flies.
Read full poem →fact to scorn,
Cries to Weakest as to Strongest, ‘Ye are equals,
Read full poem →What the years mean; how time dies and is not slain;
How love grows and laughs and cries and wanes again;
These were things she came to know, and take their measure,