sob
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Suddenly, articulating what I saw—the creative writing projects I hoped to tackle, my pride at seeing my child launch into adulthood—I found myself stifling a sob.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
“I’ll never forget this part of my life,” she said, and, behind sunglasses, began to sob.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
And Dana takes that pause to let a sob break through her hard surface.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2026
She was ferried to Jordan, where on her first morning since leaving Gaza she went down to breakfast, saw a buffet overflowing with food, and began to sob.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2025
Now she lets out a sob, and Gloria reaches into her enormous purse and hands her a tissue.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
She cried in silence, her shoulders moving slightly with the sobs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
Eunhee could hardly get her words out through sobs as her teenage son clasped his hand to his mouth.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2026
Her voice choked with sobs, she said she was forced to observe Ramadan out of her own home for the first time in the two decades she has lived there.
From Barron's ● Feb. 22, 2026
Videos taken by his older sisters show the soccer star struggling to speak through sobs.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2026
Then the muffled noise of sobs—gasping, terrible sobs which went on for a long while.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Dressed in a checked blazer in court, Parker sobbed and put her head on the defendant's table as the judge dismissed the charges against her.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
In a composed tone, as his wife sobbed in the audience, he spoke for hours about "Sammy," his "sophisticated and charismatic" daughter.
From Barron's ● May 6, 2026
"Sarah was just amazing with me while I just sobbed and sobbed in her kitchen," Behrens says.
From BBC ● May 2, 2026
Wine spilled and serving trays clattered to the ground as people screamed and sobbed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026
“I’m fed up to the eyeballs with that button brigade,” she sobbed.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
“I’m actually only going to speak about what happened after I left that set of my own film adaptation, hyperventilating and sobbing, and there are many witnesses, so it’s not really a secret.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
The movie has a pastoral coziness and lots of silly humor, but it’s also a moving meditation on death that has adults sobbing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
The 35-year-old, who made her Hollywood breakthrough in recent Oscar-winning film One Battle After Another, was sobbing as Jackson introduced her.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
"He is in there," he said, sobbing as he looked at the remains of what was once a building.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
I can’t see who it is because now the tears are flowing and I’m sobbing.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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