Collocations withcry
These are words often used in combination withcry.
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cry of anguish
At every stage in the growth of that debt, the nation has set up the same cry of anguish and despair.
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cry of despair
It is the cry of despair not to indicate to young people leaving school this week the sort of future they can expect.
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cry of distress
Why is it that last winter and last summer the cry of distress was so great that charitable people were asked to help?
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cry of pain
A cry of pain is among the universal distinctive cries of human neonates.
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far cry from
This is a far cry from past decades.
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rallying cry
This is a rallying cry rather than an admission of defeat, however, and research proceeds apace.
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