Examples of weepy in a Sentence
She started getting weepy when she talked about her mother.
I'm weepy enough that I even cry at happy endings to movies and books.
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This combination delivers so much more feeling than a hardened (or weepy) version of death ever could.
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Matthew Clark Davison, Literary Hub, 18 July 2025
White’s film was already one of the year’s best documentaries, the kind of film that made this critic and writer cry within its first five minutes, but never feels cheesy or manipulative or weepy for the hell of it.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 15 July 2025
Comment At the end of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Richard Strauss’s Salome, the soprano Elza van den Heever stayed onstage to accept the uproarious ovations with a weepy smile and a grateful tap on her heart.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro’s weepy cloning love-triangle story turned out to be apt source material for his friend Garland to adapt.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
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Matthew Clark Davison, Literary Hub, 18 July 2025
White’s film was already one of the year’s best documentaries, the kind of film that made this critic and writer cry within its first five minutes, but never feels cheesy or manipulative or weepy for the hell of it.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 15 July 2025
Comment At the end of the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Richard Strauss’s Salome, the soprano Elza van den Heever stayed onstage to accept the uproarious ovations with a weepy smile and a grateful tap on her heart.
—Justin Davidson, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro’s weepy cloning love-triangle story turned out to be apt source material for his friend Garland to adapt.
—Eric Vilas-Boas, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Weepy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/weepy. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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