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sobbing

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The 26 were beaten by the bailiffs as they filed into a caged dock, sobbing, on Dec. 21.

His voice is now shriller, the sobbing more pathetic, and the words begin to garble as he swallows water.

Eric Jr. now helped his sobbing mother over to the front pew and his equally grief-stricken paternal grandmother, Gwendolyn Carr.

Sure, the initial poof would seem pretty spectacular—car crashes, mothers sobbing over their strollers, that sort of stuff.

My coworker—who by the way is a guy—was sobbing when we saw the film.

Donny, sobbing and calling his father's name, pushed on as well as he could by himself.

Now and again he thought that he heard some one sobbing, but the noise was very faint.

She lay there sobbing within a foot of his hungry arms, sobbing as though her heart must break.

She had sunk down beside the bed, her head was buried in the pillow; she was sobbing wildly.

Edna was sobbing, just as she had wept one midnight at Grand Isle when strange, new voices awoke in her.

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On this page you'll find 38 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sobbing, such as: wailing, weeping, bawl, bawling, bewailing, and blubber.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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