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sobbed

VERB

cry hard

Synonyms

STRONGEST

bawl break down howl wail weep whimper

STRONG

blub blubber lament snivel

WEAK

boohoo cry a river cry convulsively cry eyes out shed tears turn on waterworks

Example Sentences

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Sobbed my way through the last twenty minutes.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2023

Sobbed Chicago's Journal of Commerce's Claudia Cassidy: Both OPM and OPA showed their teeth last week, for the first time got noncompliant businessmen up on charges.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sobbed Foreman Frank Davis, one of those rescued: "No chance, no chance."

From Time Magazine Archive

Sobbed the onetime U. S. Public Enemy No. 1: "Why don't these fellows like me?"

From Time Magazine Archive

And the Fir Tree, tall and somber, Sobbed through all its robes of darkness, Rattled like a shore with pebbles, 5 Answered wailing, answered weeping, "Take my balm, O Hiawatha!"

From Graded Poetry: Third Year by Various