sobbing

Example Sentences

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“I can’t even tell you the number of people that have approached me, just openly sobbing with happiness,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

Bodycam footage recorded by the officers shows his mother, Coutts, sobbing on the floor and telling them it was "unfair".

From BBC • May 11, 2026

“He was sitting in my office sobbing his eyes out,” she says.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 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

Pita scrunched up her face, on the verge of sobbing aloud.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall