as in to cry
to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress
the child sobbed when she found the dead frog
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Recent Examples of sob
Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2025
After the ceremony, a number of people stayed at the field for up to 45 minutes longer to connect with each other, many hugging and sobbing.
—Keri Brenner, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
Violet Goldstone, Footwear News, 28 Mar. 2025
For 30 years Koze has made music that captures the feeling of finding happiness in spite of it all, of smiling through a face full of tears, laughing between sobs, and realising that even now, with all that’s happening in the world, there is beauty out there.
—Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
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Verb
Members of Holloway’s family sobbed quietly as the jury foreperson announced the verdicts, the Connecticut Post reported.
—Muri Assunção, New York Daily News, 22 Apr. 2025
After the ceremony, a number of people stayed at the field for up to 45 minutes longer to connect with each other, many hugging and sobbing.
—Keri Brenner, Mercury News, 22 Apr. 2025
Noun
Williams added a pretty pastel bathroom, perfect for a midday sob, printed on a T-shirt and floral patterned Korean toilet paper inspired miniskirts and cool slouchy dresses.
—Violet Goldstone, Footwear News, 28 Mar. 2025
For 30 years Koze has made music that captures the feeling of finding happiness in spite of it all, of smiling through a face full of tears, laughing between sobs, and realising that even now, with all that’s happening in the world, there is beauty out there.
—Sam Davies, Rolling Stone, 10 Mar. 2025
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Verb
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Traditionally, the upside down American flag signals distress, and that was the mood expressed as speakers shouted, cried and chanted with the crowd of around 100 people.—
Harley Walls,
Arkansas Online,
17 May 2025
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Sara Haines and Alyssa Farah Griffin cried on the air over their pets.—
Joey Nolfi Published,
EW.com,
16 May 2025
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Rice was surrounded by her legal team and her family at the time of the reading and immediately started weeping with her face in her hands.—
Caroline Blair,
People.com,
3 May 2025
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Adele wept her way through 60 Minutes and sold 3.38 million albums in a week.—
Remy Blumenfeld,
HollywoodReporter,
1 May 2025
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“Sob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sob. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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