He looked tearful and almost ready to start crying when his father shouted at him.
After a tearful farewell at the station, we went our separate ways.
The last thing he ever saw was her tearful smile.
Once in bed she felt unable to move at all and became tearful.
I hate tearful farewells - let's just say 'goodbye' and part.
He devoted a whole poem to the blueness of his victim's eyes, which the two policemen read out loud to one another through hysterical, tearful laughter.