noun
definition
A cry with a short, sudden expulsion of breath.
definition
Sound of sob
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.
Examples of sobs in a Sentence
She began to cry, her sobs muffled as she leaned forward against her arms.
Nishani didn't resist when he wrapped his arms around her but began to cry the soul-deep sobs he remembered from his youth.
She continued to cry in muffled sobs against his chest.
She was sure he would speak soft, tender words to her such as her father had uttered before his death, and that she would not be able to bear it and would burst into sobs in his presence.
She was unable to control the sobs that ravaged her body.
Renewed by the blood, more sobs wracked her body as she thought of Damian and how badly she'd destroyed any plan Dustin or Jule could make.
Whenever she seemed to be getting herself under control, a fresh bout of sobs would begin.
When her sobs began to subside, he spoke in as calm a voice as he could muster.
Deep uncontrollable sobs squeezed the breath from her lungs.
After some cooing on Cynthia's part, the crying subsided to sniffs and quiet sobs.
Uncontrollable sobs wracked her body as she clung to the tiny sweater.
She rocked in the chair, consumed by grief and breath-robbing sobs.
Her mother and father-in-law sat in front of the crushed structure, hunched over while their sobs reaching her ears.
Do I hear the muffled sobs of a Wounded Child?
Every muscle of Telyanin's pale, terrified face began to quiver, his eyes still shifted from side to side but with a downward look not rising to Rostov's face, and his sobs were audible.
Natasha suddenly cried, and again burst into sobs.
Natasha did not change her position, but her whole body heaved with noiseless, convulsive sobs which choked her.
And she burst into sobs with the despairing vehemence with which people bewail disasters they feel they have themselves occasioned.
The comic efforts with which he moved his tongue made her drop her eyes and with difficulty repress the sobs that rose to her throat.
Princess Mary pressed her head against his hand, trying to hide her sobs and tears.
His sobs ceased, he pointed to his eyes, and Tikhon, understanding him, wiped away the tears.
Princess Mary murmured, pacing the garden with hurried steps and pressing her hands to her bosom which heaved with convulsive sobs.
Princess Mary read the paper, and her face began to quiver with stifled sobs.
Oh, ooh! his frightened moans could be heard, subdued by suffering and broken by sobs.
Her throat quivered with convulsive sobs and, afraid of weakening and letting the force of her anger run to waste, she turned and rushed headlong up the stairs.
Natasha, motionless on her knees (she was unable to stir), with frightened eyes riveted on him, was restraining her sobs.
This woman, swaying to and fro and muttering something, was choking with sobs.
Sonya burst into hysterical tears and replied through her sobs that she would do anything and was prepared for anything, but gave no actual promise and could not bring herself to decide to do what was demanded of her.
When Natasha opened Prince Andrew's door with a familiar movement and let Princess Mary pass into the room before her, the princess felt the sobs in her throat.
He had evidently run out of that room to give vent to the sobs that were choking him.
Cynthia tried to say something but was unable to fight back her sobs.
In a flood of tears and half-controlled sobs she got to her feet, and handkerchief to her face, dashed across the room toward the entrance.
She buried her face in her hands as long agonizing sobs wracked her body to the core.
She sank to his chest, consumed by agonizing sobs.
Carmen shook with the intensity of the sobs.
The execution was a military and not a national act, and at the last scene on the scaffold the triumphant shouts of the soldiery could not overwhelm the groans and sobs raised by the populace.
The stored tears continued to flow and the sobs wracked her body, robbing it of the ability to speak – barely allowing a breath to be drawn.
She gasped for breath and managed to get two words between sobs.
How long she sat there and cried, she couldn't say, but gradually the sobs subsided.
He heaved with painful sobs, rendering speech impossible.
There ever the great sea sobs in winter, and the autumn winds chaunt their saddest requiems.
One day, my brothers, hearing great choking sobs coming from my room rushed in to my aid.
It was not for himself alone he spoke, hearing sobs from hamlet to hamlet, poverty anchoring on the land like a plague.
Consumed with sobs, Dulce simply shook her head.
The stored tears continued to flow and the sobs wracked her body, robbing it of the ability to speak – barely allowing a breath to be drawn.
But words never came to her lips, only long sobs.
Mrs. Marsh had found one last reserve of uncontrollable sobs.
Then, these near silent sobs would have turned to shrieks of anguish while I made the young beauty my own.
I closed my eyes and swallowed my sobs on the short trip to the police facility.
In the long silence that followed, she heard Darian's sobs.