sobbing

Example Sentences

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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

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

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 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

Valley seemed to be sobbing now and she made a high-pitched noise that sounded like wheezing, but when she straightened up and Seven saw her face, she was not crying.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega