Example Sentences

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The complication, he noted, is “doing your job” in gathering information even as you’re “standing shoulder to shoulder with people who are sobbing and grieving.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 25, 2022

Other times, they are sobbing, and have to be carried away.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2019

"Hardened collectors are sobbing at the sight of it," Smith posted online.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2014

It is a very emotional moment and all the staff at No 11 are sobbing as we move next door.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2011

Some are snif- fling and tearing up silently, and some are sobbing openly.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau