sobbing

Example Sentences

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Khwaja Ahmad barely gets out a few words before he starts sobbing.

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Agreed, there’s incredible power in those close-ups of people singing and sobbing along with Eilish’s songs.

From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 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

I did not cry so as to be heard, however; I avoided sobbing.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë