Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of one who sobs; a series of sobs or sounds of a similar nature.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A series of short, convulsive inspirations, the glottis being suddenly closed so that little or no air enters into the lungs.
WordNet 3.0
- n. convulsive gasp made while weeping
Examples
“I knew this had abruptly changed the day I heard sobbing from the shower and rushed in to discover my wife's hands filled with clumps of her thick black hair.”
“One morning I came in sobbing that there was something wrong - the chickens were sick!”
“His heart is pounding; his head is reeling; his breath is coming in sobbing gasps!”
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“I cry every time I read it and begin sobbing halfway through the animated movie.”
“Kate wasn't about to stop, even though she was nearly doubled over from the pain in her side, and her breath was coming out in short, sobbing gasps.”
“One afternoon he came in sobbing, with his golden curls full of burrs.”
“Another space of silence and of deep darkness, during which I heard Papave return, breathing in short, sobbing gasps like one who is very frightened.”
“One morning he called sobbing and said he feared Frances had died.”
“And he forced them to do so, whilst in short, sobbing gasps, the dying man told of the whole knavery: how they had been bribed to do the actual salting, how each day Gilderman and Jelder had given them a certain number of stones to strew in likely places, and find ostentatiously in sight of the professor, how he and Junes had conceived the idea of stealing the diamonds and burying them where they could find them later, and how, when that morning they had overslept and entered the tent late and seen the strong box lying there empty, each had instantly suspected the other of stealing a march upon him.”
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