Example sentences for: sobbing

How can you use “sobbing” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • My personal favorite is a pop hit of 1898 by the black writer Gussie Lord Davis, about an overnight train full of passengers irritated by a sobbing infant and demanding to know where the mother is.

  • And, all the while, Yuri Bashmet goes threading his way across the foreground, a lonely man with an eerie and haunting sound, sometimes quietly shrieking, sometimes singing lyrically--a heartbreaking figure, heartbreakingly courageous--until, by the end, he seems to be quietly sobbing.

  • Later, watching the movie, I found myself nearly sobbing, too, except from boredom.

  • As we used to say in the third grade, back when I was wearing Keds for Kids and a Star Wars T-shirt and sobbing on the playground because the other kids were all pelting me with dodge balls, "well, ah- doy.

  • The following week, the Globe quoted Hansbury "sobbing" those exact words "to friends."


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