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
Chris Young Ritzen, CBS News, 10 May 2025
Grief arrives in waves — sometimes in quiet tears, sometimes in guttural sobs, sometimes in the simple, brutal ache of reaching for your phone to text her, only to remember a painstaking reality.
—Carissa Talmage, People.com, 2 May 2025
Aya Al-Hakim, People.com, 7 July 2025
Less than a minute into this week’s episode, Julia starts sobbing while practicing opera.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 3 July 2025
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Verb
When the guilty verdict was read, Lori Leonard's family burst into cheers and sobs, but Shawn Doyle showed little reaction.
—Chris Young Ritzen, CBS News, 10 May 2025
Grief arrives in waves — sometimes in quiet tears, sometimes in guttural sobs, sometimes in the simple, brutal ache of reaching for your phone to text her, only to remember a painstaking reality.
—Carissa Talmage, People.com, 2 May 2025
Noun
The emotional toll is enormous: Dream returns to the Dreaming and washes Orpheus’ blood from his hands, sobbing in solitude.
—Aya Al-Hakim, People.com, 7 July 2025
Less than a minute into this week’s episode, Julia starts sobbing while practicing opera.
—Tom Smyth, Vulture, 3 July 2025
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Yuhua says upon entering the competition, while other footage includes queens proudly standing atop the Werk Room tables, and, of course, crying.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
29 July 2025
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Parents are stressed, and kids are coming home crying.—
Caroline Beck,
IndyStar,
29 July 2025
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On Thursday, the victim’s mother, Mal Elliot, wept in the gallery as Califf admitted to fatally shooting her son.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
19 July 2025
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This mirrors the wedding of real-life heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt to the 9th Duke of Marlborough, during which she was reported to be seen weeping beneath her veil.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
14 July 2025
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“Sob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sob. Accessed 3 Aug. 2025.
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