Sentence examples for great sob from inspiring English sources

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A knee ligament injury meant that his playing career, spent as a youth teamer at Forfar and an amateur at Brechin City, did not last long but it wasn't going far anyway: "There was no great sob story," he says.

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As he told me this, he started to cry with great big sobs.

He is crying his heart out; spewing great big sobs.

At noon, Mr. Doi heaved great sobs on the gymnasium's concrete steps, head in hands.

The staticky guitar riffs and angular rhythms hint at hard-swinging syncopation beneath the screaming chaos, and Mr. Jones knows when to switch off his guttural roar and unleash great, sobbing melody, vowing, "It won't be long, we'll meet again".

Like some of the greatest sob sisters of the big screen — think of Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Crawford — she has a kind of working-class toughness bordering on hardness that makes the eventual cracks in her armature all the more effective.

While Spain's players rejoiced and Iker Casillas, the great goalkeeper, sobbed and sobbed, the Dutch players and their fans did not go quietly.

A great human sob shrieked in the wind, and tossed its tears upon the sea -- free, free, free".

She began weeping, great wracking sobs.

Then, she recalled, amid "great racking sobs," her mother went into labor.

But Murray, interviewed before this match, had described seeing great players sobbing uncontrollably in the locker room; and how excruciating the formalities after a final can be.

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