Sentence examples for reduce to a sob from inspiring English sources
Soon the screaming will reduce to a sob.
After Vanessa and John's final rendezvous in the cholera caves, when John tells her his "long dream of kinship" has ended, and the camera cuts to his shuddering sobs, a man reduced to a creature not of malice but of terrible grief, I defy you not to be moved.
Some of the most lethal manipulators operate from pity: Think how hulking gangster Tony Soprano was reduced to a hyperventilating toddler in the presence of his mother, Livia, as she sobbed into her handkerchief praying for the Lord to take her.
reduced to an inconvenience.
Great big hulking hunks of men were reduced to shuddering sobs as they failed to remember the lyrics to Be My Baby by The Ronettes, probably recorded 30 years before their birth.
At the start of "Doubt," Father Flynn, the earnest central figure in John Patrick Shanley's play, begins a sermon by asking: "What do you do when you're not sure?" At the play's end, Sister Aloysius, his nemesis, has been reduced to tears, sobbing: "I have such doubts; I have such doubts".
We see children tormented until they are reduced to sobs, or to nearly catatonic withdrawal, or to suicide.
Here in his hour of triumph was the 60-year-old Ohio-born architect of the Republican recapture of the House of Representatives reduced to sobbing.
Recalling this was clearly traumatic for Ms Collins, and not for the first time in our discussion she was reduced to sobs.
She's out in the cold, figuratively, and reduced to sobbing in her dark, drab apartment.
