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    sob


    sobbed


    sobbing


    sobs


    1. That does it, the tears start flowing and, with an audible sob, she buries her face in her hands, giving in to a thoroughgoing bout of emotion


    2. His car is parked in the car park on Sunday – I see it from my bedroom window as I am dressing … it hits me so hard that I throw myself onto the bed and sob into the pillow … I wish, oh how I wish I could see him


    3. I put my face in my hands and sob frantically


    4. Nothing can be so bad that you are crying like that!’ he exclaimed as I sob myself silly into his jacket


    5. Son began to sob


    6. (begins to sob) He used me


    7. SAMANTHA hugs her and starts to sob


    8. He whispered that he loved me and would never, ever, ever cheat me again and I think I felt him sob


    9. As the young man leaned forward and kissed his bride to be softly on her ruby red lips, Betsy Windsor, the congregation and the viewing public all stated to sob tears of pure joy


    10. Windsor, the congregation and the viewing public all stated to sob

    11. The old woman stopped suddenly, with a sob in her voice


    12. Jack continued to sob and I could tell it was wearing on Stenworth’s nerves


    13. "You mean well, Watson," said the sick man with something between a sob and a groan


    14. He shuddered, and again made a sound between a cough and a sob


    15. She put it on her finger and began to sob


    16. He would not allow himself to sob


    17. ” A sob caught in my throat


    18. I heard him swallow a sob


    19. “Anyway when I could finally pull him away we went back to were Ben and the blokes lay and I picked him up in my arms and cradled him his blood stained my shirt but do you Know what Billy Boy he looked so peaceful and he even had a smile on his face”, a strangled sob came from his throat then he carried on


    20. “How’s Charlie are his wounds mended yet I expected him to be back home by now?” Tears started to fall from Beth’s eyes and to catch in her lashes before shedding down her cheeks a small sob like a sigh escaped her lips as she replied

    21. “Listen to what I am saying to you it’s alright for any man to sob if he’s been through what we have and at your age I wouldn’t expect anything else so don’t be ashamed men a lot older than you would have broken down a long time before now


    22. When are you coming home?" She began to sob, in her strange staccato way, very slowly,


    23. The words were strangled from her throat by a sob


    24. Her lip quivered and a sob threatened to choke off her voice


    25. She swallowed down a sob and wiped her eyes free of tears


    26. The bookmaster even heard him sob, “…but he was like a son to me” before crying some more


    27. in her breath that was almost a sob


    28. sob, and that time Santa Claus heard him and drew rein


    29. Then suddenly she turned, and laying her head on his shoulder, began to sob softly


    30. She burst out crying hysterically once more, throwing her arms around me hugging me, holding me with such force that I felt her body jerk with each and every sob and teardrop

    31. " Another pause, then, "Oh my poor cub," the last word came out as a sob


    32. I heard a tiny sob escape from his throat, and all I could do was hold him as we cried together


    33. Instead she began to sob while holding out a piece of paper for me to read


    34. She looked at me with penetrating eyes and suddenly emitted a low sob and fell unconscious


    35. "That's what he did," he finished with a small, tearful, sob


    36. “Having any luck?” he asked Constable Grunion, aware of the sob in his voice as it caught momentarily


    37. I’m sorry —” His voice faded off into a soft sob


    38. When questioned as to what it was that troubled him so terribly, he replied with a sob story about his wife wanting divorce because he’d been ruined financially, a daughter he was not likely to see again and a farm that soon would be gone


    39. At this I stifled a sob, but I sensed that if anyone could


    40. Better still, to have it happen at home, with your family, your loved ones, your mother—a sob tore at her heart, when she acknowledged that thought

    41. I was dizzy and weak and tried to pull away to sob alone, but she clutched me to her perfect white breasts and rocked me as a child


    42. Tears streamed from my eyes but I did not sob


    43. It was not entirely redirected, thought Blaine with a sob


    44. continued to sob into her mother"s arms, so struck with grief


    45. ” She stopped, choking back a sob


    46. “We’re drifting away,” he heard her say, a sob evident in her voice


    47. The mousy-haired girl clamps her hand over her mouth and stifles a sob


    48. I cover my mouth to stifle a sob


    49. A strangled sound interrupts the breathing, followed by a heavy sob


    50. Those words hit exactly the feeling Enilia had and another fierce sob rushed through her body








































    1. They whimpered and sobbed as the old man rose up to


    2. “¿What will I do now?” she sobbed


    3. “She will always be my little girl Kate,” she sobbed as she leaned against Sam


    4. Ruby was dreadfully upset by the despicable fate her mother had chosen for her and she sobbed quietly into her bedclothes


    5. The huge pie dish slid all the way down the table and spilled its contents all over poor little Ruby, who wailed and screeched and sobbed


    6. As she sat on a kitchen chair and quietly sobbed to herself, her husband decided that he had, perhaps, been a little harsh


    7. Left alone in the boardroom, Cyberia lost all sense of time as she sobbed her heart out for her foolishness


    8. Petrified and confused, I sobbed and tears streamed down my face


    9. her and she sobbed quietly into her bedclothes


    10. As she sat on a kitchen chair and quietly sobbed to herself, her

    11. Cyberia lost all sense of time as she sobbed her heart out for her


    12. his back as he sobbed, and witnesses, including a


    13. Roman sobbed for the


    14. He sobbed for the twelve-year old girl in Versailles,


    15. She stumbled through the events of the day, and then sobbed over how she’d tried to please him for the last couple of week


    16. He wept, rather sobbed with passion from the depths of his soul


    17. and she hid her head in her hands and sobbed


    18. “No! No! No!” he sobbed aloud


    19. Jeremy sobbed again, and kissed her forehead


    20. I rolled over on my side and sobbed

    21. “I don’t know,” he almost sobbed


    22. The rocking figure turned its head, sobbed more loudly and then turned back and hugged the still figure harder


    23. Kate sobbed again then asked “Can I lie with you?”


    24. I sobbed and she held me tightly


    25. Someone behind us got the sniper who had killed our friend but that was to late I knelt down beside him and smoothed the hair out of his eyes I saw the small black hole and cursed it then I sobbed bitterly


    26. Several women in the room lowered their heads and sobbed as Cupid continued


    27. I suppose I was feeling sorry for myself, but I felt like a child as I sobbed


    28. I sobbed for my mates who had been torn from their families forever and for the ones like Elijah who were terribly mutilated and wounded


    29. I sobbed for my mother and father who I had lost at an early age but more than this I cried for myself and my lost youth and again I asked the question what am I doing here? The nurse tried to comfort me but it was useless the pent up emotions that had been held inside me for so long broke through and just like a dam breaking they flooded out


    30. “How did Ma take the news then I mean Charlie is now all she has left?” Beth looked at me and sobbed again replying

    31. Pamela buried her head in her arms and sobbed


    32. “You must know that I would never leave Helen or cheat on her in anyway so why drop this bombshell now tell me why you have decided to reveal this now?” She sobbed as she told me


    33. She buried her head in her hands and sobbed


    34. her arms and sobbed


    35. ' She hung her head and sobbed softly for a few minutes


    36. When they drove home Jack burst into tears and sobbed his heart


    37. She sobbed her heart out my brave Rosie brought to this state by that bastard Smith I would take great pleasure in killing the little fucker and I laid her back against the pillows as she said


    38. I sat down next to him and sobbed my heart out because despite his rank and older years he had been a good friend to me


    39. My chest tightened and I couldn’t seem to get my breath I sobbed uncontrollably and snot ran down my nose and bubbled as I cried my heart out but it went unnoticed for the moment


    40. I sobbed unashamedly at these words what a brave woman she had been and that I should be ashamed sitting here shitting myself and feeling afraid

    41. ” The bookseller quietly sobbed, almost as if he was a lost little boy in search of his mother


    42. Poor little Red Riding-hood sobbed and sobbed because she couldn't go


    43. Many in the crowd of villagers sobbed openly, while Forgo told them of the brave mission that deputies Bosco, Porge, and Dumpus had undertaken to Water-Down, all in hopes of finding Billiken Bunkins and Soapy Parfinn, and of the dangers they’d all faced with their comrade Longleaf


    44. Covering her ears, Dawn sobbed under the jets of water, trying to block out the dying screams of the helpless pony as the cats ripped it to pieces


    45. It was a memorable service, and as the strain “Praise God from whom all blessings flow” rose through the trees from voices softened by the gratitude and emotion of men brought by the scenes of war to a nearer realisation of mortality, many a sick American boy sobbed aloud, as his thoughts reverted to the distant home where prayers were rising for the loved one in the field


    46. 'I think he's dead!' she sobbed


    47. Lowering her head, Dawn sobbed quietly, her tears falling onto her knees


    48. hopes and joys, he hid his face upon his desk and sobbed aloud


    49. "Read it," he sobbed


    50. She just shook her head and sobbed out loud, her body jolting as it expelled the air from within her












































    1. His sobbing was cut off by Chemall's powerful voice


    2. Ahmed is sprawled across the bed, SOBBING and clutching a teddy bear


    3. ‘He didn’t hurt you, did he?’ Stephen asked fiercely, as I succumb to tears, sobbing into his shoulder as he helplessly pats my back


    4. ‘Yes, she was sobbing herself silly before they brought him out but when he started on her she just froze


    5. After he stopped sobbing and just sat beside the drying puddle silently for a long while, he heard something coming


    6. “She’s just a baby!” She buried her face in Sam’s arms sobbing


    7. You are wonderful! So big, so fantastic! She was sobbing and with tears of joy


    8. She actually didn't want to get deep into sobbing over that


    9. By the time the cops arrived I was on the ground sobbing


    10. The fisherman was disgusted with his wife’s behaviour, until, with the screaming and shouting turning into the inevitable sobbing and sniffing that always closed down their arguments, she explained just how much their current house was worth and what that meant in terms of their future lifestyle

    11. She fell into his arms sobbing hysterically; he calmed her and they both walked over to Duncan


    12. The girl went for the largest bug in a rage and sliced it to pieces before slumping to the ground in a heap, sobbing


    13. Katie is dry-eyed and pale, but Abi is sobbing unrestrainedly with Ben doing his best to console her


    14. screaming and shouting turning into the inevitable sobbing and


    15. Billy has rolled away and is sitting with his head in his hands, sobbing as the blood from his torn knuckles trickles down his arm


    16. One day, Chen came in to find the loom empty and the widow sobbing


    17. He’s had lunch with her a couple of times (cue another outbreak of sobbing from Terry, I reach for another handful of tissues),


    18. She’d been sobbing so hard, she hadn't noticed Jim standing only a few feet away


    19. She heard her son sobbing


    20. The door opened and immediately she was holding onto him, sobbing on

    21. She kept from sobbing again, but her eyes were wet and stayed that way


    22. She started sobbing quietly but was hysterical by the time she was lead away


    23. Victoria got up and ran to him sobbing, "Oh Alan," her head reached just to his shoulder, "It's you! What has happened? When you wouldn't come with us from that evil city we were sure we would never see you again


    24. That night Xonia was awakened by someone sobbing


    25. He began sobbing in his sleep, reliving the whole event in his sub-conscious


    26. She was trembling slightly and began sobbing as she clung to him


    27. That’s when the tears usually came, the sobbing that tore his heart apart, the loneliness and the despair


    28. When his mother eventually calmed down and stopped sobbing, Zarko led her to the waiting room and made her sit down on one of the couches


    29. The floodgates of her eyes opened and she abruptly burst into tears and began sobbing uncontrollably, her shoulders shaking with grief


    30. Jeremy relinquished his hold on her and she clung to me, sobbing

    31. Throughout the afternoon, she lay there sobbing while I made what preparations I could before the fever left me too ill to continue


    32. I was crying, sobbing, wanting it all to end, but I didn't have the strength to pull myself off the dusty floor


    33. I could see his shoulders shake from sobbing


    34. Suddenly he realised that the soft sobbing sound was still there, not as loud as in his dream but there all the same


    35. These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by an occasional exclamation of ‘Hjckrrh!’ from the Gryphon, and the constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle


    36. ‘When we were little,’ the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, ‘we went to school in the sea


    37. ” Elijah blind it echoed and re-echoed through my brain I could not believe this had happened to us and I started crying and the more I thought about the mates I had lost or who had been injured the worst the sobbing became


    38. I held her to me until the sobbing stopped and then I said


    39. Sobbing her disappointment to the Lord, she confessed she had been too eager to have a relationship


    40. Pamela threw her arms around his neck, sobbing her

    41. Jack stood like a statue, listening to Maureen's stifled sobbing


    42. Gradually her sobbing came under control


    43. What was hurting him more was the quiet sobbing pulsating from her chest


    44. What could he say? Rose! Rose! Rose! Presently the sobbing calmed and her breathing eased and she seemed to be sleeping


    45. ” She was sobbing freely now and I held her to me as she continued


    46. “Its no use shouting at them Sam or offering them anything because they have no use for anything anymore Sam started trembling and sobbing and believe you me I wasn’t far off myself


    47. The flare died out and I heard Sam’s breathe hiss out and then he gulped loudly through sobbing


    48. I nearly screamed at the pair of them why me was I not allowed a rest why did I always have to go out on a limb and risk my life? I started sobbing and I found it hard to stop everything that had happened in the last two years suddenly closed in on me and I thought that I would go mad


    49. He began to make deep throated sobbing sounds, a man in pain beyond imagining


    50. She was sobbing and loudly cried, “OH MY GOD," again














































    1. "Father, why are you doing this?" she sobs


    2. Trying to comfort her, though horribly aware that there is nothing I can say which will make things better, I sit beside her uttering soothing noises, one arm round her shoulders as she sobs for some minutes


    3. as the black bound bite their cheeks and blood red lips stop sobs


    4. He called one more time anyway, before his call broke into sobs


    5. ‘Whatever is wrong?’ he asked as I hiccough frantically, trying to stem the sobs


    6. Little by little the wrenching sobs slow; I hold him, his face against my shoulder, until the shuddering breaths stop


    7. Time passed in a blur of wet eyes and convulsive sobs, and it was late into the evening before Cyberia realised that she was not alone in the boardroom, and through her tears she could barely make out the shape of the person standing by the door


    8. We stand there in the back lobby for ages, but eventually, when my sobs have reduced to sniffles, she leads me into the kitchen and sits me down, going over and putting the kettle on to boil


    9. I listened to Suzanne’s choking sobs and coughing


    10. Her mother sobs quietly on the sofa, one hand over her mouth as her eyes spill tears across her cheeks

    11. Carol hugs Bex tightly and sobs


    12. Through her sobs she tells me that she’s discovered that her husband is seeing another woman


    13. I hold Abi, muttering comforting noises and stroking her hair as she sobs her worry into my shoulder


    14. Gradually, her sobs become more sporadic,


    15. Katie’s here; she rushes over towards the window and looks at me anxiously then, she sobs and throws her arms around me


    16. The sobs of the man were loud like


    17. `This is the end of everything' (he said), `at least it is the end of the career of Toad, which is the same thing; the popular and handsome Toad, the rich and hospitable Toad, the Toad so free and careless and cool! How can I hope to be ever set at large again' (he said), `who have been put into prison so justly for stealing so handsome a motor-car in such an outrageous manner, and for such imaginative cheek, put upon such a number of fat, red-faced policemen!' (Here his sobs choked him


    18. So the wise girl retired for the time, but, of course, a good deal of the smell of hot cabbage remained behind, as it will do, and Toad, between his sobs, sniffed and reflected, and gradually began to think new and inspiring thoughts: of chivalry, and poetry, and deeds still to be done; of broad meadows, and cattle browsing in them, raked by sun and wind; of kitchen-gardens, and straight herb-borders, and warm snap-dragon beset by bees; and of the comforting clink of dishes set down on the table at Toad Hall, and the scrape of chair-legs on the floor as everyone pulled himself close up to the table


    19. "No band" said Flitter quietly as Miss Pringle's stifled sobs could still be heard at the back of the hall


    20. The sobs were loud and heavy

    21. ” The sobs had abated, but Izzy’s voice sounded dead


    22. It will be too much trouble for you,” Helez protested through the sobs, occasionally dabbing at her eyes to wipe away the tears


    23. Through her sobs Helez recounted what had happened, recalling every little detail


    24. Who would have wanted him dead and why?” she managed between the sobs


    25. “Yes, we love each other and want to get married,” she managed to say through the sobs


    26. All I heard were Becky's sobs


    27. Tears glistening on his cheeks, and he choked back sobs as he continued, "He tried to save her


    28. I choked on my sobs and spit out a mouthful of blood


    29. "I never thought I'd see you again,” he said through his sobs, and I held him tight while he caught his breath


    30. He looked at Alice, and tried to speak, but for a minute or two sobs choked his voice

    31. The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes choked with sobs, to sing this:–


    32. of the Mock Turtle’s heavy sobs


    33. ” He brought his hands up to cover his face as sobs shook his frame and it was this and the terrible look of hurt in his eyes that persuaded me to tell him what had happened, after all were we not all a band of brothers


    34. When the sobs turned into sniffles, Joseph removed his arms from around James and led him to a bench


    35. His body shook with sobs that tore him asunder


    36. His sobs quietened and he put his head in my lap, stretched out onto the rock and looked at me


    37. ” I gathered His head in my arms and held Him as sobs eventually quietened


    38. When my sobs quieted he moved me away from him


    39. “Oh, my God!” He whispered as sobs tore through my body


    40. the worst of the upset and are in the process of recovery, with deep sobs separated by silences

    41. her sobs interrupted her question


    42. Her tears had turned to sobs


    43. He began to cry, coughing out angry sobs as the tears ran down his cheeks


    44. He wrenched at his hair and his body shook with his sobs


    45. He couldn’t hold back the tears and broke down into sobs again as he realised what he had become


    46. Raven thought his chest might cave in with the pain, and thick, choking sobs burst from his mouth, beyond his control


    47. They sat in silence for a long time, Raven with his head down, occasionally trembling with what may have been sobs, and Kiri watching him, knowing that just being with him was helping


    48. Gradually the sobs ceased


    49. Then Jimmy Scarecrow stood in the corn-stubble and shook with sobs


    50. "Wish you the same," said Jimmy, but his voice was choked with sobs,










































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    Synonyms for "sob"

    sob sobbing asshole bastard cocksucker dickhead mother fucker motherfucker prick shit son of a bitch whoreson breathlessness shortness of breath burst out choke rage blubber break down

    "sob" definitions

    a dyspneic condition


    insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous


    convulsive gasp made while weeping


    weep convulsively