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Six example sentences with lachrymose, each labelled with its topic.
The third act turned so lachrymose that half the audience was dabbing at its eyes before the credits rolled.
Movies
Her lachrymose ballads about lost summers left listeners reaching for tissues by the second chorus every single night.
Music
Victorian readers adored the lachrymose deathbed chapters, weeping openly on trains as the serial instalments arrived each month.
Literature
The captain's retirement speech turned lachrymose halfway through, and even the rival coach was wiping his eyes.
Basketball
The outgoing mayor gave a lachrymose farewell, pausing three times to weep over twenty years of potholes and parades.
Politics
The gallery's Victorian room is unrelentingly lachrymose: weeping widows, weeping orphans, and a spaniel weeping over an empty chair.
Art
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