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bawl

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noun

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Recent Examples of bawl
Verb
That night, Faris saw a woman near her bawl and wide-eyed grown-ups run. Washington Post, 21 July 2021 Distillers bury their faces in their hands and bawl after learning MLB’s winter meetings will go virtual. Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2020
Noun
My mother and sister were bawling their eyes out, burrowed against me. Joseph Earl Thomas, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025 Instead, similar to other animals, newborn babies produce a heartbreaking (and ear-piercing) bawl. Jeremy Engle, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for bawl
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bawl
Verb
  • Parents are stressed, and kids are coming home crying.
    Caroline Beck, IndyStar, 29 July 2025
  • Yuhua says upon entering the competition, while other footage includes queens proudly standing atop the Werk Room tables, and, of course, crying.
    EW.com, EW.com, 29 July 2025
Verb
  • Hill yelled, after lifting the 195-pound Mostert in celebration.
    Jayna Bardahl, New York Times, 31 July 2025
  • According to The New York Times, Booker yelled so loudly during the confrontation that his voice was heard outside of the Senate chamber.
    Anna Commander, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 July 2025
Noun
  • When a truck carrying Mr. Nasrallah’s coffin entered the stadium, the crowd erupted in shrieks and cries as the voice of the former Hezbollah leader — clipped from his speeches — echoed from speakers.
    Christina Goldbaum, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
  • Late in the show, a lone woman’s passionate shriek activates something in McCartney.
    Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 12 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Van Wessel’s picture is of two teen-age friends of Yuliya and Anna’s, clutching each other, or maybe holding each other up, their eyes closed, clearly sobbing, standing over an open casket.
    Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2025
  • Early on in Perfect Match season 3, Rachel sobbed after Clayton broke the news about their split.
    Joelle Goldstein, People.com, 2 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Farke shouted and put a hand on Chambers’ shoulder, smiling.
    Beren Cross, New York Times, 28 July 2025
  • Every twenty or thirty feet, a hawker would shout and cross the street to shake my hand, or step away from a storefront and fall in beside me.
    Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Noun
  • Moscow’s escalating air war and the distinctive whine of Shaheds is now forcing Ukrainians out of their beds and into shelters and metro stations on an almost-nightly basis.
    Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
  • That is, until you are subjected to the relentless whine of mosquitoes.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 16 July 2025
Verb
  • On Thursday, the victim’s mother, Mal Elliot, wept in the gallery as Califf admitted to fatally shooting her son.
    Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 19 July 2025
  • This mirrors the wedding of real-life heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt to the 9th Duke of Marlborough, during which she was reported to be seen weeping beneath her veil.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 July 2025
Verb
  • On a warm day July 11, Caroline Flynn and her young children were in a South Boston park near their home for a birthday party when her 4-year-old ran out of a play area without shoes on and screamed.
    Grace Zokovitch, Boston Herald, 28 July 2025
  • After continuing to chase the cat, Ozzy delivers his most iconic line from the show: simply screaming Sharon's name.
    Carson Blackwelder, People.com, 28 July 2025

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“Bawl.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bawl. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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