sob
verb (used without object)
to weep with a convulsive catching of the breath.
has sobbed
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present perfectof sob (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Nurse Camille Davis has watched more than 30 patients die from coronavirus infection, and has sobbed while holding her phone close to them so loved ones could say their goodbyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2020
Singer Johnnie Ray, 31, stood at the microphone in Philadelphia's Latin Casino, opened his mouth wide, and slid into a number he has sobbed to audiences the world over: The Little White Cloud That Cried.
From Time Magazine Archive
I shall tune it to the notes of forever, and when it has sobbed out its last utterance, lay down my silent harp at the feet of the silent.
From Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore
From that day the north wind has sobbed, and the owl has hooted, and the lost traveller by night knows not that it is the blood of the she-wolf bemoaning her crime.
From The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian by Ralph Browning Fiske
"Yet many a day that opened as bright and cloudless has sobbed itself away in tears."
From After the Storm by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
