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cry for

VERB
  1. need badly or desperately
    This question cries out for an answer

How To Use cry for In A Sentence

  • There were times when it was hard, when one or other of us would be crying out for more, be it moving in, or more often a cry for the delights of sexual intimacy.
  • Her suicide attempt was really a desperate cry for help.
  • His entire being had been drained by the immense blast he'd unleashed on the assaulting legions, but Rakael's desperate cry for help had catapulted him out of his repose.
  • The club who has issued a cry for help says it will disband within the next three weeks, unless immediate support from parents and supporters comes forward.
  • Of course he's probably lying, but any sensitive, caring American would recognize this as an anguished cry for help.
  • I heard cry for help from inside the building.
  • Is it just another cry for attention from a man who admits he is a compulsive showman? Times, Sunday Times
  • Maidens with water-jars on their heads which might have been dug up at Pompeii; priests with broad hats and huge cloaks; sailors with blue shirts and red girdles; urchins who almost instinctively cry for a "soldo" and break into the Tarantella if you look at them; quiet, grave, farmer-peasants with the Phrygian cap; coral-fishers fresh from the African coast with tales of storm and tempest and the Madonna's help -- make up group after group of Caprese life as one looks idly on, a life not specially truthful perhaps or moral or high-minded, but sunny and pleasant and pretty enough, and harmonizing in its own genial way with the sunshine and beauty around. Stray Studies from England and Italy
  • There has never been a time when the cry for unlimited congressional power has rung so hollow.
  • Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution. Robert H. Schuller 
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