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

At last, after he has sobbed his very heart out, he agrees to stay on a condition—we are not to mention this matter, this infamous suspicion, not even to mention the robbery.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Swanston Edition Vol. 6 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

But there have been times in this war when the strongest man has sobbed like a child in his weakness.

From Mufti by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

"Yet many a day that opened as bright and cloudless has sobbed itself away in tears."

From After the Storm by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)