verb
definition
To weep with convulsive gasps.
definition
To say (something) while sobbing.
example
"He doesn't love me!" she sobbed.
verb
definition
To soak.
noun
adjective
definition
That or who sobs.
example
a sobbing child
synonyms
Examples of sobbing in a Sentence
Sonya was sitting sobbing in the corridor.
Anatole was sobbing painfully.
All he could see in his head was kiri sobbing and the dreams she'd made him remember.
Sobbing, she dropped to her knees.
She was sobbing convulsively.
Half an hour later, her eyes swollen and her chest sore from sobbing, she turned her face up to the warm water in the shower.
The man was sobbing and choking convulsively.
She'd broken down for weeks, sobbing and refusing to leave her house.
She sat down, sobbing her heart out, and Sofia sat near her.
A long time passed until both heard the muffled but distinct sound of Martha's quiet sobbing in her adjacent room.
She laughed then collapsed onto him sobbing.
With his scream echoing in her head, she staggered up and started pummeling the jaguar.s face, shouting for it to let the sobbing baby angel go.
Jenn lay across his bed in the dark, sobbing quietly.
She was sobbing uncontrollably and he pulled her soaked frame up to him, trying to wrap his raincoat around her shaking body.
The Princess lay prone upon a couch, sobbing bitterly.
Dean took his wife's hand and pulled her to her feet and held her until her sobbing subsided.
By the end of it, she was sobbing.
I lay there a long time, sobbing, " What a pity, what an infinite pity!
Picture a sobbing child sitting in his mother 's lap.
Her emotions crippled her, and she flung herself on the bed, sobbing.
Horrified, Jenn's mother dropped to her knees, sobbing.
I am trying to type a text file whilst sobbing gently to myself at my own inhumanity.
The film paves a little too much sap with sobbing tragic love.
Lucy was so startled, she ran off sobbing with fright but outside the bars, Beard Man just kept clicking on.
Pa-pa!" he called after him, sobbing, "forgive me!"
Sobbing, she kissed and comforted Natasha.
At the end of the play Pandora was sobbing uncontrollably.
Since the 1970s, before the motel was demolished, guests reported that on very rainy nights they experienced hearing a loud knocking on the front door accompanied by the sound of a man sobbing.
He ran over to the Troop Leader and, sobbing uncontrollably, described how the bear wanted the peanut butter chocolate so bad that he'd torn the jeans right off of Jake's legs with two swipes of his razor sharp claws.
Gentle hands lifted her from the ground, and she buried her face in Bordeaux's chest, sobbing.
Deidre dropped her head into her arms, sobbing.
There were three then five voices with a sixth calling the police and the seventh hugging the sobbing kid.
And a terrified little Oracle who's sobbing her eyes out right now.
Anna Mikhaylovna, who always knew everything that passed in the house, on hearing of the arrival of the letter went softly into the room and found the count with it in his hand, sobbing and laughing at the same time.
She sat in her room crying like a child, blowing her nose and sobbing.
She ran out sobbing into the garden and as far as the pond, along the avenues of young lime trees Prince Andrew had planted.
It was now, however, impossible to get back the way he had come; the maid, Aniska, was no longer there, and Pierre with a feeling of pity and disgust pressed the wet, painfully sobbing child to himself as tenderly as he could and ran with her through the garden seeking another way out.
On his last day, sobbing, he asked her and his absent son to forgive him for having dissipated their property--that being the chief fault of which he was conscious.
The look on his face ⦠I burst into a fit of tears, sobbing loudly.
Ruth, who is eight years old, was sobbing quietly.
She was sitting in the living room, sobbing again.
Sometimes people sound like they 're sobbing when they try to laugh.
She sat in the mixed zone, where the athletes collect their kit, sobbing with joy.
It was very sad and I have been unable to talk about him at work today without sobbing like baby.
Buck staggered over against the sled, exhausted, sobbing for breath, helpless.
Afterward, Hal went from room to room pounding on each door and sobbing with despair over what he had done.
Here I sit, having to listen to a sobbing lady instead of being on my way to more pleasant chores.
She tugged her hands free and leaned into him, sobbing and shaking, unable to support herself.
Over and over, she hacked her father into pieces, sobbing and screaming.
He wriggled through the crowd to her, looking past her at the chasm and the woman sobbing beside it.