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Cry out for   /kraɪ aʊt fɔr/   Listen
Cry out for

verb
1.
Need badly or desperately.  Synonym: cry for.






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"Cry out for" Quotes from Famous Books



... where the bedrooms are small and often dark, where the living room is also a kitchen, a laundry, and often a garment-making shop, are the growing children whose bodies cry out for exercise and play. They are often an irritant to the busy mother, and likely as not the object of her carping and scolding. The teeming tenements open their doors, and out into the dark passageways and courts, ...
— Aliens or Americans? • Howard B. Grose

... cry out for thought, and are the first to strike at it with your dogmatism. You don't ...
— The Colossus - A Novel • Opie Read

... I bore my child, Would he cry out for fear Because the night was dark and wild And no one else ...
— Poetical Works of George MacDonald, Vol. 2 • George MacDonald

... lavished on him, at heart he was a lonely man. Perhaps in her way Elizabeth was lonely too. In spite of her devotion to David's father, there were times when the narrowness of her life oppressed her—when her broad sympathies and strong vitality seemed to cry out for a larger life, for a wider outlook—when she trod the woodland paths with a sense of weariness—the same path ...
— Herb of Grace • Rosa Nouchette Carey

... locked door of the old bedroom. She shrank as the echoes rattled from the dingy walls where her candle cast strange reflections. There was no other answer. A sense of an intolerable companionship made her want to cry out for brilliant light, for ...
— The Abandoned Room • Wadsworth Camp


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