1.   She mopped the tears away with a lacy handkerchief.

2.   Five nights ago, upon learning that he had been jettisoned from the Houston Rockets, Scott Brooks was mopping away tears of disappointment.

3.   He is a rough man with a truck who buys and sells hogs for a living, but his battered hands mop away tears as he recalls these events.

4.   Leaning on artificial legs and canes, they mopped tears off their faces and bitterly accused the United States of betrayal in the death of their former commander.