sob

Example Sentences

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How long I lay on my bed sobbing for the one love of my life I do not know.

From Literature

It is the sound of a people in despair that I shall never forget: the weeping, the sobbing, the screaming and the praying.

From Literature

Milton said he and his wife both began sobbing.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was the same songs as a real funeral, though without the usual sobbing after ‘The Old Rugged Cross’.

From Literature

"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