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How to use the word CRIES in a Sentence? Page #2

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He that falls by himself never cries.

Turkish Proverb

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6 years ago

The use of torture is contrary to sound judgment and common sense. Humanity itself cries out against it, and demands it to be utterly abolished.

Catherine The Great

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6 years ago

This whole issue of the relationship with the Russians and who communicated with them and under what circumstances clearly cries out for investigations, but I would also point out, we should not assume guilt until we have a thorough investigation.

John McCain

Found on CNN
7 years ago

What we shouldn't do now is to inflame the situation by loud saber-rattling and shrill war cries, whoever believes that symbolic tank parades on the alliance's eastern border will bring more security is mistaken.

Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Just one bit of advice: when a child cries because he's hungry, I'll say to the mothers -- if your child is hungry, feel free to feed him here.

The Pope

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When he cries very movingly on camera, and he's crying over white children, he is now the father-in-chief, they are his children. He is clearly shedding tears over white children who he considers his children as well. It's a major moment.

Jerald Podair

Found on CNN
8 years ago

After downloading this app, we only need to set the birth of date and nationality for the new born baby, once the baby cries, we only need to press the recording button for 10 seconds, and the sound will be uploaded to the Cloud Drive. After the differentiating process, the analysis result of the sound would be transferred to Mum's mobile phone. So Mum can depend on the actual situation to determine whether the analysis result is correct or not, to make a revision for the app.

Chang Chuan-yu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The Infant Cries Translator can differentiate four different statuses of sounds of baby crying, including hunger, the diaper getting wet, sleepy and pain, so far, according to the feedback from users, the accuracy of the app we've tested can reach 92 percent for babies under two weeks old. As for the babies under one or two months, the accuracy of the app can also reach up to 84 or 85 percent. Even for the four month old baby, the accuracy can reach 77 percent.

Chang Chuan-yu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We received the news because of our relationship with the Swaseys, we were at the house when Garrett Swasey had to share the news with her children. The cries and sobs of her children learning that their daddy is never returning is something that will be etched in my mind for the rest of my life.

Kurt Aichele

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is long overdue for you to heed the cries of the victims of rape and sexual abuse, torture, mass displacement and other inhumane suffering Darfurians continue to endure.

The ICC

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I was only three or four years old when my uncle died but I can remember my mother’s cries, she was listening to music, she was ironing I think, and she cried out, because they were talking about a plane crash, a tragedy in which all the Alianza Lima players had been killed.

Paolo Guerrero

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It was definitely a blow, to say the least, i’m not a kid that cries, like ever. But that was the first time in a long time that I shed any tears.

Clate Schmidt

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The regime hates this film because it shows Kim Jong Un as a man, not a God, he cries and is afraid like us and then he's assassinated.

Lee Min-bok

Found on CNN
9 years ago

One can hear cries of 'My God' in several languages, metallic banging can also be heard more than three times, perhaps of the pilot trying to open the cockpit door with a heavy object. Towards the end, after a heavy shake, stronger than the others, the screaming intensifies. Then nothing.

Paris Match

Found on CNN
9 years ago

One can hear cries of 'My God' in several languages, metallic banging can also be heard more than three times, perhaps of the pilot trying to open the cockpit door with a heavy object. Towards the end, after a heavy shake, stronger than the others, the screaming intensifies. Then nothing.

French Paris Match

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It just cries out for comparison.

Jeffrey Abramson

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part.

Thomas Paine

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9 years ago

Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part.

Thomas Paine

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10 years ago

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

Walter Benjamin

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10 years ago

The violent illiteracies of the graffiti, the clenched silence of the adolescent, the nonsense cries from the stage-happening, are resolutely strategic. The insurgent and the freak-out have broken off discourse with a cultural system which they despise as a cruel, antiquated fraud. They will not bandy words with it. Accept, even momentarily, the conventions of literate linguistic exchange, and you are caught in the net of the old values, of the grammars that can condescend or enslave.

George Steiner

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10 years ago

Lost money is bewailed with deeper sighs Than friends, or kindred, and with louder cries.

Juvenal

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12 years ago

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone.

Dante

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12 years ago

A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say. "May new sufferings torment your soul."

Soren Kierkegaard

added by anonymous
13 years ago

When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Old Indian saying

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13 years ago

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