sobbing

Example Sentences

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Khwaja Ahmad barely gets out a few words before he starts sobbing.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

“When my sister went to college, I was sobbing, like, ‘How could you move away?’”

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026

Milton said he and his wife both began sobbing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

"He did not want to leave the town. He stayed, but is now in the cemetery," she told AFP, sobbing in the church hall.

From Barron's • Mar. 16, 2026

“Monsters are eternal,” she told him, trying to keep herself from sobbing.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan