Sentence examples for sob for from inspiring English sources

Did she not also sob for hours at a time?

She would play and sob for hours, but emerge from the room without a word.

"They have no rights to take anyone's life," he said, as his wife, Jin Ah Lee, began weeping and continued to sob for 45 minutes, sometimes drowning out his voice and those of other speakers.

Then, and only then, anyone who thinks themselves British will sob for joy, wave the flag of victory and declare unconditional love for the place we all call home.

In northern Indiana, the news of Fort Sumter caused Theodore Upson's grandmother to sob for those of her children who remained in the South: "Oh to think that I should have lived to see the day when Brother should rise against Brother".

Those tears too often well up in Eyres's eyes when he extols Horace: he stifles a sob, for instance, when reading one of the odes in Naples airport – though that may be because of the beer he has just drunk, or "the cuvee called Carpe Diem", named after Horace's injunction to enjoy the day, whose "enchanting rich nose of tar and leather" tickled his subtle nostrils the night before.

People sobbed for the trees.

"I was sobbing for days, on my knees, crying, praying.

Another breaks into loud, gasping sobs for no apparent reason.

He was sobbing for the last four minutes, before he remembered to stop recording.

"He sobbed for half and hour when he told me the news," she said.