half-sobbing

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In the silence that followed, the low, half-sobbing whine was heard at the door and then the long, questing sniff.

The Long Trail 2010
She nodded, half-sobbing, her face heavy with tears.

Steve Mariotti: Remembering Ayn Rand Steve Mariotti 2011
Soon they met Richard, who had now stopped shouting, and was stumbling along, half-sobbing.

An Open Letter to Fans of South Plains Football 2010
I was gasping, half-sobbing, becoming less coherent by the second.

Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
He was kicking me and cursing, panting and half-sobbing as his boot thudded into sides and back and thighs and buttocks.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
He knelt on the stones, trembling, half-sobbing in fear and amazement.

Harpist in the Wind McKillip, Patricia A. 1979
His voice came in hoarse gasps punctuated by half-sobbing inhalations.

The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962
His voice came in hoarse gasps punctuated by half-sobbing inhalations.

The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962
His voice came in hoarse gasps punctuated by half-sobbing inhalations.

The Satan Bug MacLean, Alistair 1962
The purest form of it is undoubtedly the Irish; and who will not bear witness that in its half-laughing and half-sobbing notes we hear the voice of the race?

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various