Sentence examples for sob that from inspiring English sources

I held in the sob that was coming and swallowed it back down.

It's not that Ms. Eder's singing lacks emotion; she has a built-in sob that she wields with a machinelike precision.

And so when she got the word, by e-mail at her home here, she let out a shriek and a sob that scared her parents.

And he does a remarkably good job of rendering Williams's famous melodies with the silky warble and sob that recreate their touching simplicity.

The other, much larger voice, into which she suddenly breaks like a horse leaping out of the starting gate, is an emotionally unstrung cry with a built-in sob that she freely uses as a kind of spur.

Ike's father straightens his shirt, takes a step toward the door, seems to be leaving, and then, again unexpectedly, "wheeled back around and let loose with a single whooping sob that should have been heard all through the building but was swallowed by the acoustically tiled walls: specifically installed, Iacone had once been told, in anticipation of moments such as this".

If, in the afternoon, I was capable of reading about my fate with detachment, by that evening I had collapsed into heavy sobs that weighed down on me and got tangled around my legs like wet sheets.

Taking directly to her bed, inconsolable, she reported between sobs that David had "dumped" her in favour of Poppy.

Amid the laughter and occasional sobs that will soon consume cinema audiences, I hope Pride reminds a new generation of that eternal truth.

Nicklinson's despair following last week's ruling was evident to all, as he broke into sobs that shook his paralysed body.

"By this he knew she wept with waking eyes: / That, at his hand's light quiver by her head, / The strange low sobs that shook their common bed / Were called into her with a sharp surprise".