How to Use weeper in a Sentence

weeper

noun
  • Be warned that Homebound is a three-hankie weeper.
    Anupama Chopra, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Such was the verdict that was handed down upon Anthony by his father, Dick, who was a boozer and a weeper as well as a baker.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Full of big moments, rousing choruses, barstool sing-alongs, and even a few weepers, Stages is an album calibrated to the live experience.
    Stephen Deusner, SPIN, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Diamond wrote this waltz-time weeper with Carole Bayer Sager, who beat him to the punch with her own recording; his version is haunted, hers downright macabre.
    Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2026
  • Guthrie wrote the weeper in 1948 to commemorate a plane crash in California’s Central Valley that killed all 32 on board, including 28 Mexican nationals with a one-way ticket back home.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2026

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