sob story
Example Sentences
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Lizzo's team has called the lawsuit a "fabricated sob story," but a Los Angeles judge ruled that the case could move forward last year.
From BBC • Dec. 16, 2025
If he has a sob story about how he has to collect the car now, say no.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 10, 2025
So are the film’s many montages underlining Ryuta’s plight — he toils at multiple jobs to care for his sick mother — that reduce the character to something of a sob story.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2024
It would’ve been weird enough for Justin Timberlake, of all people, to open his new album with a sob story about the high price of fame.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2024
I was trying to think up a sob story for the waitress when a rumble shook the whole building; a motorcycle the size of a baby elephant had pulled up to the curb.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
