The phrase "anguished cries" refers to desperate and painful shouts or screams that express intense suffering or sorrow.
Sentences with «anguished cries»
If and when Oregon is unlucky enough to have the inevitable Cascadia earthquake strike during a school day, and there are anguished cries of government negligence here as there have been in China, what will the response be? (dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com)
The treatment is so severe that it plays like satire of bad science fiction: Nurses with military escorts scurry through empty halls, as anguished cries sound from behind closed doors. (villagevoice.com)
In Greek, the wording of the Lord's Prayer that Jesus had passed on to his disciples for them to pray and the wording of his own anguished cry in the garden are identical (compare Matthew 6:10 with 26:42). (firstthings.com)