[
UK
/sˈɒb/
]
[ US /ˈsɑb/ ]
[ US /ˈsɑb/ ]
NOUN
- insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous
- a dyspneic condition
How To Use SOB In A Sentence
- It was of a suitable Ash Wednesday character and left the congregation feeling sober and a little cast down.
- Statistics paint a sobering picture — unemployment, tight credit, lower home values, sluggish job growth.
- The paintings are some of the artist's most sober works, but there is a lightness of being at their core, as well.
- Despite a somewhat unexciting personality, he became known as a sober and reliable commentator on the political scene. Times, Sunday Times
- How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate? — Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
- But if a stranger or metic smite one who is older by twenty years or more, the same law shall hold about the bystanders assisting, and he who is found guilty in such a suit, if he be a stranger but not resident, shall be imprisoned during a period of two years; and a metic who disobeys the laws shall be imprisoned for three years, unless the court assign him a longer term. Laws
- On his way out, he met Baldwin dressed soberly in a black frock coat and pantaloons.
- Keeping to a Japanese theme, I'm using soba noodles and tamari soya sauce - the real stuff, no additives or caramel, simply soya beans, salt and water.
- I support a troop's right to disobey his or her commanding officer, to desert, to subvert the system that enslaves him.
- Everyone became equally loud, crude and garrulous, the technically sober behaving identically to the genuinely drunk.