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
Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
In a video testimony, the man, whose name was not released, is seen falling to his knees and sobbing.
—Diaa Ostaz, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2025
Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 17 Oct. 2025
An elderly woman sat alone in a pew at a McEwen church during an afternoon prayer service Oct. 11 and shook with sobs over the loss of a loved one, among those killed in the explosion.
—Beth Warren, Nashville Tennessean, 12 Oct. 2025
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Verb
Kalybriah paused, apologized and started to sob, while Edmond shouted.
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Santos denied most accusations at the time but later made a plea deal in court and appeared to break down into sobs of remorse earlier this year upon being sentenced.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for sob
Verb
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The 45-year-old's work at the CBS Evening News desk was even criticized by fellow TV personality Megyn Kelly, who relentlessly mocked Dokoupil for crying during a CBS News Miami clip that saw him being interviewed by a local broadcaster and subsequently crying over memories of his childhood.—
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Jane and Darlene have both cried on the runway recently.—
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Christopher Patterson's mother held back tears as his family and friends gathered on Friday outside the home where the 23-year-old lost his life two days before.—
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Narrated by Colm Feore and James Hyndman in the English and French versions of the movie, respectively, the 17-minute stop-motion short follows a poor young boy who discovers a girl whose tears, evoked by a sad home life, turn into pristine pearls.—
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Artemis then returned to the slain Orion and wept over him for hours and hours.—
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On Friday, relatives wept over the bodies of a 16-year-old girl and her two nephews who were killed in their tent in southern Gaza.—
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The names of full-game starting quarterbacks since Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly’s retirement after the 1996 season are voluminous and, at times, groan-inducing.—
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Cohen said, drawing another groan from Cooper.—
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“Sob.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sob. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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