sob
Example Sentences
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“I’ll never forget this part of my life,” she said, and, behind sunglasses, began to sob.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026
"It came like an earthquake.. I thought 'Well, if I am going to die, then so be it,'" he said, beginning to sob heavily.
From Barron's • Dec. 3, 2025
“We hear far too much about gang members and criminals’ false sob stories and not enough about their victims.”
From Salon • Aug. 1, 2025
As a singer, McRae can expertly control the sob in her voice, as in “Tuesday,” a stark piano ballad about a betrayal made all the more painful by how little it meant to the traitor.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 18, 2025
She let out another low rumbling sob that sounded like the earth shifting beneath our feet, splitting the world right in two.
From "King and the Dragonflies" by Kacen Callender
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