Idiom
cry oneself to sleep
Meaning
To cry until or to fall asleep.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He was so sad that he cried himself to sleep.”
“After hearing the bad news, she felt so overwhelmed that she cried herself to sleep that night.”
“Following the sudden departure of her closest friend, she spent the long, lonely night crying herself to sleep in the quiet house.”
Examples
simple
“He was so sad that he cried himself to sleep.”
contextual
“After hearing the bad news, she felt so overwhelmed that she cried herself to sleep that night.”
complex
“Following the sudden departure of her closest friend, she spent the long, lonely night crying herself to sleep in the quiet house.”
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