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cry out for

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

How To Use cry out for In A Sentence

  • But few others cry out for recognition.
  • In any case there is the war, a hilltop, a huntsman, and a mournful reveille to life - described in sentences so off-kilter and beautiful you don't know whether to cry out for help or just start crying.
  • Not only that, the media on the whole grows more accustomed to ignoring important stories that cry out for real, gumshoed investigations. Moving On: 2006
  • The reason for the sounds was because a piece of tape was over her mouth so she couldn't cry out for help, and her ankles were tied together in a tight knot.
  • And there are certain crimes still that are so heinous, so wretched, and so abominable that, yes, they do cry out for vengeance, and they do cry out for the death penalty.
  • It is often a cry for help in the only way that many people know how to cry out for help.
  • Picnics cry out for rude plenty, the cheap and cheerful bottles that are able, above all, to withstand a hot or bumpy journey.
  • The stables and kennels cry out for an animal lover. Times, Sunday Times
  • As for accepting the words ‘twenty-first’ and ‘century,’ our inner historians should cry out for better periodization.
  • Houses cry out for a coat of paint and are circled by half-broken fences.
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