Idiom
shed a tear
Meaning
To have a tear released, to cry (from sadness)
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She shed a tear when she watched the sad movie.”
“He tried to stay strong during the speech, but he could not help but shed a tear as he spoke about his late father.”
“As the final notes of the symphony faded into the silence of the concert hall, the elderly composer shed a tear, moved by the beauty of his own creation.”
Examples
simple
“She shed a tear when she watched the sad movie.”
contextual
“He tried to stay strong during the speech, but he could not help but shed a tear as he spoke about his late father.”
complex
“As the final notes of the symphony faded into the silence of the concert hall, the elderly composer shed a tear, moved by the beauty of his own creation.”
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