How to Use bawl in a Sentence

bawl

verb
  • The kid just broke down and bawled.
    — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 Oct. 2025
  • For sure, John would be bawling.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Then the barking would change again to bawling — the bear was off again.
    — Mike Combs, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2025
  • Dogs can read your emotions and Julie was bawling like crazy.
    — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2026
  • That image of you in that back corner, head on the ground, bawling.
    — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Feb. 2023
  • My dad pulled over on the side of the road bawling in Edmonton.
    — Karen Bliss, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2019
  • King Princess is on a mission to make her enemies bawl their eyes out.
    — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2025
  • My mother and sister were bawling their eyes out, burrowed against me.
    — Joseph Earl Thomas, Harper's Magazine, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Instead of leading the bear to me, the dogs took the mad and bawling critter right past me.
    — Jim Rearden, Outdoor Life, 5 Nov. 2025
  • Oh no, everyone was bawling their eyes out, even the coaches.
    — Steve Brand, Pomerado News, 1 June 2017
  • Outside of the apartment, Collins and the entire crew were bawling as well.
    — Yohana Desta, HWD, 11 June 2018
  • One of them, shouting and distraught, suddenly starts bawling his eyes out.
    — Anna Arena, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2017
  • Ahmad goes to his mom’s room and finds her on the edge of her bed, hunched over, bawling into hands that are balled into fists.
    — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Crowds of hundreds with their heads lowered bawled loudly in unison; others fell to the ground and shook in their grief.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Thirty minutes later the dogs both shot off the righthand side of the road, bawling and running in high gear.
    — Mike Combs, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2025
  • Both men bawled in a viral clip that brought their accomplishment into full focus.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2026
  • At deadline, there were no followup Instagrams of mom and kids bawling.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Now, speed restrictions have trains crawling and riders bawling.
    — Samantha J. Gross, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Mar. 2023
  • The beagles had been ranging in the swamp for less than 10 minutes when Mutt bawled loud and clear on a red-hot track.
    — Erwin A. Bauer, Outdoor Life, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Willis, who is heterosexual, bawls much like Carl Bean.
    — Ct Jones, Rolling Stone, 11 May 2026
  • Yet a version of them, bawling and pleading, will remain on the Internet, frozen in time.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2019
  • The coffee’s still bad, the babies are still bawling, the turbulence is still turbulent.
    — Winston Ross, Forbes.com, 12 Jan. 2026
  • People take sides, people shout and bawl, people like or unlike the antagonists.
    — Andrew O’Hagan, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • The little girl walked onto a plane and immediately ran off, bawling.
    — Amy Kaufman, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2023
  • But the night will be more remembered for the emotional tribute that had Marchand bawling by the end of it.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The sound of cattle bawling for days after their calves were driven to the sale barn suddenly took on a harrowing timbre.
    — Ali Francis, Bon Appétit, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Al-Hashimi ends up bawling in her car about Robby’s lack of empathy and perhaps the hypocrisy of it all.
    — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The baby bawled, the women and girls tiptoed, and at last Lina and the Brown family reached the ground and ran across the street.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The baby bawled, the women and girls tiptoed, and at last Lina and the Brown family reached the ground and ran across the street.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The answer came not in words but tears, hugging his parents and bawling on their shoulders as the announcement of his score echoed across the mountain.
    — Mark Zeigler, latimes.com, 14 Feb. 2018

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