sob
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1.0
- noun
- /sɑb/
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- Hornbeck allowed himself a small sob, but once that passed his lips, the dam behind it shook loose.
And just like the that kind of crying of the kind of the heaving sobs.
- And just like the that kind of crying of the kind of the heaving sobs.
Examples
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When Grandma shook with hidden sobs, Dad took her hand.
Fiction book (1990) -
The child's sobs filled the air after he scraped his knee on the pavement.
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No one could have heard a single sob, guilty and base.
Fiction book (1990) -
Suddenly, the awful injustice of man to man brought a dry sob to her throat.
Fiction book (1990) -
"Before Brian could speak, she was rushing down the hall, her sobs trailing behind her."
Fiction book (1990) -
As Margaret brought the cloth to her mother's face, the sobs that were waiting in her chest came rushing out.
Fiction book (1991) -
Margaret started to cry: huge, gulping sobs that shook her whole body.
Fiction book (1991) -
Eventually, her tempest of misery began to die down to individual sobs and sniffs.
Fiction book (1990) -
As she lay there, sobs were wrenched from her, shaking her in an abandonment of grief.
Fiction book (1990) -
Lifted on stage, she kneels at Xuxa's feet and sobs as she professes her devotion to the star.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
Compounds
- Informal
16
4.9
A story often exaggerated that tries to make people feel sorry for personal problems
- Archaic
1
9.9
A journalist who writes emotional newspaper stories to make readers feel sorry
How Intense
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word sob copies the short, gasping sound people make when they cry, so a sob is a sudden 'gasp' of the breath that often comes with tears.