How To Use Sobbing In A Sentence

I groped for the gear stick, sobbing desperately as the car lurched forward.
On an ancient stone stump, about three feet thick and three feet high, used for securing ships by ropes to the shore, and called a bollard or holdfast, an elderly gentleman sits facing the land with his head bowed and his face in his hands, sobbing. Back to Methuselah
Hiccups, more officially referred to as singultus, from Latin - to catch your breath while sobbing are repeated, spasmodic contractions of the diaphragm causing a quick inhalation, which is then cut short by an involuntary closing of the glottis. NYT > Home Page
I found her sobbing in the bedroom because she'd broken her favourite doll.
Suddenly the procession is interrupted by irrepressible sobbing.

I never understood the screaming hysteria, swooning, and sobbing that seem conventional behaviour for thronging female audiences at big rock concerts.
Emily, too, starts sobbing, and her husband comforts her.
Suddenly Ah - chin rushed in sobbing and wailing, her dishevelled hair hanging over her face.
But above all, we have seen people dying, heard people sobbing their last words.
He screamed, letting the sound die out in ragged sobbing. Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Alexi Zentner's 'Trapline'
How dare you! how _dare_ you!" cried Elsie, stamping her foot, and drawing a long, sobbing breath. Elsie's Womanhood
As the cripple sat looking over the solemn, moaning ocean, awed by its brooding gloom, did he catch in the silvery starlight a second glimpse of the rose-colored veils, and snowy vittae, and purple - edged robes of the Parcae, spinning and singing as they followed the ship across the sobbing sea? St. Elmo
After the argument she spent an hour sobbing her heart out in the bedroom.
Surprised he stopped sobbing and looked at her inquisitively. FAILURE • by Elina Michaels
I seem to be stuck halfway between fiendish laughter and pathetic sobbing.
To which end, I have mostly been sobbing into my keyboard for the last couple of days.
Meanwhile, klutzy, overemotional Simone was sobbing madly, because she had gotten herself caught in the folding chair.
We could hear the child sobbing in the other room.
All she wanted to do right now was start sobbing.
After the argument she spent an hour sobbing her heart out in the bedroom.
Her eyes were red with recent sobbing.
Professors, students, and townies alike stood around us, sobbing silently at the destruction of the most beloved building on campus.
Above the static and the crackle of automatic gunfire there was the sound of sobbing and screaming.
Sobbing tearlessly, she explained that the government had closed the local polyclinic.
The line repeated endlessly in my head as he screamed louder, the woman sobbing harder.
My grandfather, who had badly sprained his ankle only a week before while getting a lesson in baile tropical out on the patio with Esperanza´s sister, and had been getting around with a cane, was now sitting on the edge of Eula´s bed, his head and hands leaning heavily on the curved handle, sobbing pitifully. Burying Eula - A Day Of The Dead Story
Here I am thirteen years later, sobbing on a therapist's couch.
Being dragged from the bed, along the landing, me sobbing and screaming too.
She's incoherent, crying, sobbing, and there is not a person in the room who doesn't know that it is all an act.
Near Freder, upon the illuminated mosaic floor, cowered the little drink-mixer, sobbing uncontrolledly.
Her eyes were red with recent sobbing.
He had not been sobbing but her cheeks were moist and his eyes were bleary.
The path was empty, save for a faint sobbing sound and a tiny speck of a figure in the distance.
I was hiding in the bathroom for something like the forty-seventh consecutive night, and—just as during all those nights before—I was sobbing.
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He broke down at the sight of it, and when the guard came to fetch the tameless convict, they found him on his knees in a corner, sobbing like a child. For the term of his natural life
So I paced around the apartment hyperventalating for about 10 minutes, then I called Capital City Guy sobbing and he came over and kind of jimmied it open again. But Do I Ever Have A Point?
I could hear him sobbing and really yelping and screaming.
She was sobbing with pain and fear.
For answer, through the din of the elements, a voice called brokenly, sobbingly: The Eternal Maiden
One minute you're sobbing enough to fill your sister's kiddie pool and laughing like a hyena the next.
His wife and another woman in the public gallery burst out sobbing as the verdicts were announced and as he departed for jail, they yelled insults at the police officer in the case.
He moved forward to touch her arm but she flinched away, sobbing harder.
Emerging from my semi-conscious state, I blinked away the stubborn black spots in front of my eyes, and was immediately tackled by a sobbing blonde thing.
Daphne was choking back the urge to start sobbing uncontrollably.
She was still sobbing uncontrollably in my arms.
She was one of the girls who flirted her way through a hair-mussing group number with Steven as the muss-ee, but went to pieces in Vegas and ended up sobbing on the ladies room floor while an "Idol" camera crew stood by without so much as throwing her a hankie. 'American Idol' 2011: Top 24 survive the Trail of Tears
sobbingly, the teenager admitted killing the baby
I heard a child sobbing loudly.
Also, Miral'' s directed by Julian Schnabel, who brought the beautiful Diving Bell And The Butterfly to our screens – a film that some of us are still sobbing into our morning coffee over.
Her sister broke down, sobbing into her handkerchief.
Sobbing, gasping for breath, she began to crawl across the floor.
I hugged her and soothed her back as she began hiccuping and sobbing.
No longer awash with big-boy bravado, they have crumpled into sobbing heaps.
During the big pauses between each of the short, sobbing phrases at the opening of the Tristan prelude, you could have heard a pin drop.
She winds up the chat some of the girls are sobbing heartbrokenly telling them they have to go home - but luckily they're actually already home, and the pipe and drape suddenly reveal that they're actually inside the model house. Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: America's Next Top Model, Cycle 16 Premiere
Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance. Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
I perceived the Thing would come up with me long before I reached the enclosure, and, desperate and sobbing for my breath, I wheeled round upon it and struck at it as it came up to me, struck with all my strength. The Thing in the Forest
To my credit, when I heard the word "penis" I managed not to break down sobbing until the woman waving the magic sonogram wand left my husband and me alone in the examining room. You Can't Always Get What You Want
Convinced the plane was about to crash, many people were sobbing and in hysterics.
The scene ends with the sobbing woman screaming for a sympathetic witness on the other side of a one-way mirror.
Uliba went on sobbing, and Masteeat frowned at me as though becoming aware that the family squabble was being earwigged by this foreigner. Flashman on the March
At the end he emerged exhausted, sobbing for breath, his jaw sore from a first-blow, his shoulder aching from the bruise of a club, the blood running warmly down one leg from the rip of a dog's fangs, and both sleeves of his parka torn to shreds. THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE
The boundaries between the play and the audience dissolved further when a woman in the crowd began sobbing and flailing her arms.
I curled up in a corner and buried my head in my knees and started sobbing as subtly as I could.
In the end, you will hear fellow theatergoers weeping all around you, the sound muffled only by that of your own cathartic sobbing.
Half an hour later, groaning and sobbing, the captain crawled to Chris's feet. Chris Farrington, Able Seaman
Sobbing hysterically I sank into the nearest silk bergere. Where to land, where to land
With Charlotte sobbing in my arms, I tried to make sense of the words Piper was lobbing at me like missiles: collagen deficiency, bones angulated and thickened, beaded ribs. Handle with Care
Hailey slammed the door and stumbled to her bed, sobbing like a baby.
He looked over at Katie, who was sobbing hysterically, tears pouring down her cheeks.
She leans back against the seat and starts sobbing endlessly.
Thousands of people have turned out in this town, including sobbing family members, policemen, and other loved ones who have come here to show their respects with flower bouquets and, in fact, in front of the cortege is a cousin of the man who died, who is sobbing and caressing his picture. CNN Transcript - Saturday Morning News: New Conflict May Arise in Kosovo - March 10, 2001
The next thing I know T.J. is sobbing, Ruth is holding her hand and I have slopped coffee in my saucer.
With a voice some called soulful and others called strangled, 17-year-old Diana Vickers was last seen sobbing on stage at the X WN.com - Articles related to Lily Allen flouts French smoking ban in Paris as she performs in a plunging leotard
Depending on your mood, you'll enjoy it as a sobbing tearjerker or loathe its sugary, contrived and maudlin morality laid on with a trowel.
IF you had a shred of decency you would bust out in uncontrollable sobbing everytime you look in the mirror from sheer shame about what a stupid and pathetic punkass troll you are Think Progress » Senior House Democrat: ‘The Senate is just a pain in the ass to everybody in the world as far as I can tell.’
Ann was sobbing loudly into her soft pillow so Myra went to her, sat on the bed and put her arms around her.
One woman epitomizes grief as utter desolation: the wide stretch of her open, sobbing mouth tells us she will never again know comfort.
She looked as if she might start sobbing again, but blew her nose and regained her composure.
At the outset, the girl obstinately prevaricated, but when she eventually heard that lady Feng intended to take a red-hot branding-iron and burn her mouth with, she at last sobbingly spoke out. Hung Lou Meng
Once there, my eyes begin to moisten and before long I am sobbing.
Smith sat sobbing and shaking in the dock with a prison officer between her and her father as the case was heard.
The room was silent except for her sobbing.
Jessica didn't want to cry again, but before she knew it she was sobbing louder than she ever had before.
Brandon looked back at Lana, and noticed she was sobbing in the arms of a tall boy wearing an ancient football jersey.
He was sobbing inconsolably
She pressed her palms against her stinging eyes, sobbing his name incoherently.
And when Tim Hagan, with straight left for the hundredth time to bleeding nose and mangled mouth, and with ever reiterant right hook to stomach, had him dazed and reeling, the breath whistling and sobbing through his lacerated lips — was no time for succor from palaces and bank accounts. CHAPTER IV
The shrieks soon became moans and the moans yelps and the yelps intermittent sobbing, and only after an unimaginable amount of time did the sobbing become silence.
The Cabinet Room looked like a war zone - pie crusts everywhere and Frank sobbing quietly into the aspidistra.
She was sobbing and tears were running down her face.
‘I guess I'm angry and scared and tired…’ Her voice trailed off and she stopped sobbing.
I shall spend the rest of the evening sobbing into my drink celebrating the fact that I've just handed you over to my Vulcan department chair, who will turn you into dinner for his pet sehlat. Stardate 2378: A Starfleet Captain challenges a final grade
At the same time, he was given to sobbing and rages like a petulant child.
She hadn't told me any of that, but apparently, my intuition was spot on because at that point Joanne curled up in a ball and started sobbing uncontrollably and nearly dry heaving in what I can best describe as primal agony. Mark Goulston, M.D.: Is Daddy An A-Hole?
The doctor is shown removing a deformed infant from its sobbing parents care.
Playing the malevolent, abrasive junkie single mother of a missing kidnap victim, a slatternly, slack-jawed racist, Ryan adopted a drunkard's waxen pallor, honked up the full braying working-class Boston accent and, in those seven minutes, ran a gamut of emotions, from sullen resentment to inappropriate levity and a final descent into abject sobbing – a magnificent shipwreck of a performance. Amy Ryan: the Isabelle Huppert of Hollywood
We made our way among a swarm of bodies, until I was face to face with a woman who was sobbing uninhibitedly.
Her mother's word comforted the sobbing girl.
He sits alone, sobbing into his hands, unable to find the words to speak of his grief.
The group of journalists began sobbing; it took 10 minutes for the reporters and photographers, all of whom had grown fond of the engaging baby, to collect themselves.
We could hear the child sobbing in the other room.
She throws herself on the floor, sobbing wildly that she wishes she was dead, now that the only person who ever loved her is gone.
The gym hall was strewn with sobbing lassies, their lives ruined, their confidence shattered by human error.
As if in mournful counterpoint to his own grief, the boy heard the clear, sorrowful notes of an alto sax keening and sobbing out a blues melody.
A moment more, and -- as he saw Sandy step out of the "bateau" with the boy, now sobbing feebly, in his arms -- he knew that his vengeance had been made for ever impossible. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories
We could hear the child sobbing in the other room.
Once the tearful reunion was over Ted helped the sobbing father to his feet.
Her shocked and sobbing face epitomised the terror that the bombs had brought to thousands of innocent city centre workers and shoppers.
I like him posessive, deranged, amused, sobbing ... but dammit, I will NOT have him turned into a sweet little PC boy who is only fierce and dominant when he thinks his 'subbie' wants him to be. Jaxraven Diary Entry
She closed the window then collapsed on the bed sobbing into the pillows.
Julia blows her nose, but her sobbing goes on uncontrolled.
Then a woman sobbing caught his attention and he remembered the unwilling assistant.
It was kind of -- you couldn't say sobbing, exactly, you know, "heaving in sobs," but there was a kind of, I would call it, surging thing going on, a kind of lapping thing, like it was hurling itself against the garage, in sorrow or -- it was actually kind of horrible. George Saunders: The Cats of 9/11
She was sobbing now, paralyzed like a cornered rabbit knowing she was doomed.
The room was silent except for her sobbing.
Jo stays up late that night, but just as she is falling asleep she heard Beth sobbing in the next room.
Rose came to her senses a moment later, and, trembling and sobbing uncontrolledly, stumbled through the darkness to the woodpile, and sat down on it. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
Astounded, she gazed in his eyes for a space, like a beautiful statue, and then suddenly burst out sobbing; and with the wonderful feminine impetuosity which only grand-souled, uncalculating women, created for fine impulses of the heart, are capable of, threw herself upon his neck, encircling it with her wondrous snowy arms, and wept. Taras Bulba
I let her head drop back upon the table, and she lay there sobbing unrestrainedly. Movie Night
Stina Nordenstam doesn't play live, barely does interviews, generally resists being photographed and sings in a small, whispery voice that sounds as if it's escaping between bouts of sobbing.
I found myself mimicking her sobbing-plus-laughing routine in the auditorium.
Calls came from not far away but I stayed silent, as my sobbing subsided to light hiccups, that soon grew faint.
i wanna call josh, but i know if i do he won't be able to understand what i'm saying through the sobbing. sorry i didn't say better goodbyes. nothing good happened today. my mom didn't even pick me up a bus pass. previous | | next Sarus Diary Entry
She landed in the moist ground, sobbing, and wishing that the car would turn around.
During the delivery of this little speech, uncle Jacob had been sobbing and panting like a broken-winded horse; and when Mary had done, he rushed up to her and kissed her, and held her tight in his arms. The Paris Sketch Book
Annie pulled herself away and threw herself face down onto the bed, sobbing into her pillow.
The gym hall was strewn with sobbing lassies, their lives ruined, their confidence shattered by human error.
Once my singleness was the butt of someone's lighthearted joke he honestly didn't mean it and I wound up leaving the room and sobbing on the bed for like an hour even though I normally don't mind being single and can joke about myself or tease other couples and things. One Bright Star (1B*) Reignited
A moment later her expression changed and she broke out sobbing, put the tray down, and ran out of the bar with a denim coat on. Manifesting Michelangelo
Frona lay, head thrown back, sobbing at the sun; amidships Corliss sprawled panting; and forward, choking and gasping and nerveless, the CHAPTER 25
I kind of patted her tentatively at first, but after a minute of the muted sobbing, I put down Scott's box and hugged her tightly. The Quickie
Instead, sadness overwhelmed her and she threw herself at the bed, sobbing uncontrollably into her pillow.
Sobbing with rage, Carol was taken to the hospital.
We run together down windows, streaming and sobbing and smashed into one big wet.
I called her every night from New York and I'm sure it was extremely tough on her to hear me, not normally an emotional person, sobbing every night.
A pair of well-trained sniper teams can hold up a platoon, a regiment, a brigade, send men scrabbling face down in the earth, huddling for cover, mewling and sobbing.
Convinced the plane was about to crash, many people were sobbing and in hysterics.
And after such fashion he continued weeping and wailing till he swooned away for excess of sobbing and lamentation, wherefor Aladdin's mother was certified of his soothfastness. Tehran Winter
The sobbing girl turned around and ran out of the room leaving her backpack and hand bag behind with the surprised young man.
Tears began falling again and I fell to the ground onto my knees sobbing.
She saw a girl with messy blonde hair sitting on the ledge beneath the frosted glass window, sobbing.
You'll hear gasps, a dead silence, then the sound of sobbing.
At this point the sky falls in and the editor, crying “Enough!” crouches submissively to the swaying floor, sobbing and crying like a baby pulverised by meteoric infall … The Odds Against Science Fiction « Write Anything
Next she would burst into a fit of sobbing, wailing on and on about how good she had been to him.
Mother was sobbing as we walked out into the shadows of the car park.
It's enough to make you head off, sobbing, to buy a pair of Marks & Spencer stay-pressed slacks in easy-care drip-dry nylon.
Television footage showed the sobbing girls being bandaged for what appeared to be minor injuries.
The boy was sobbing now as he spoke in disjointed thoughts, tears streaming to his cheeks without reserve, having to catch his breath between sentences.
As we approached, we heard sobbing from one or two women, and loud curses from the men. John Halifax, Gentleman
Eventually he began sobbing and praying for a miracle, whereupon a lone figure on a jet ski appeared.
This, and the girls sobbing outside auditions, ‘I just wanna be famous’.
She was sobbing with pain and fear.
It's rather lovely to imagine all those besuited men sitting around a table screaming and sobbing at each other; with him wailing, ‘Why did they vote NO?’
She had automatically taken her sister into her arms to console her and now Alice was sobbing on her shoulder.
Sobbingly, the teenager admitted killing the baby.
Jordan looked at her friend for a moment before embracing her closely, Madison sobbing into Jordan's shirt.
I found her sobbing in the bedroom because she'd broken her favourite doll.
Police Chief Paul Ciesielski said that Bisard was sobbing when police got to the scene, and that might have camouflaged telltale drunken-driving signs such as bloodshot eyes. IndyStar.com Top Stories
Mary, after an afternoon out, came home with her face all red and blubbered, sat in the kitchen sobbing and rocking herself, and told Mavis how she had heard on unimpeachable authority that the higgler was a married man. The Devil's Garden
She squelched back to the car sobbing unrestrainedly, dried and changed out of her wet clothes wailing and cursing.
Quietly, against the gentle sound of wavelets hitting the sleeping island, someone could be heard sobbing.
Suddenly she burst into tears, sobbing into her teddy bear.
I found her sobbing in the bedroom because she'd broken her favourite doll.
When I flopped into my seat and pulled the door shut I was sobbing from the ordeal, out of breath, very cold, and wet right through.
Upon hearing this Ellen laughed, a snort-filled, loud, drooly laugh which heaved into chuckle sobbing. Taken In
She stared at them for a minute before taking off at a run, sobbing as she ran.
They sang in discord, their disharmony drowning out the sobbing, travelling to the ears of those who lingered in the church's car park.
All of Kaeli's strong resolve disintegrated and she burst out sobbing.
The last time we saw Kieren, he was sitting in a darkened room sobbing quietly into his hands.
Her mother's word comforted the sobbing girl.
We could hear the child sobbing in the other room.
Ana's mother sprinted out back to find her daughter standing with her hands over her face sobbing.
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I wailed and collapsed sobbing in the breezeway.
I heard the sobbing of a woman, and because the portreeve had spoken of a man, assumed that it came from a cell other than the one that held my client. The Shadow of the Torturer
Sobbing with rage, Carol was taken to the hospital.
We could hear the child sobbing in the other room.

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