Sentence examples for stifled sobs from inspiring English sources

Rarely – scratch that — never have I heard so many stifled sobs and sniffles in the theater.

Ms. Alvarez continues: "Of course, she wanted to go to Bellevue/ where the world was safe, the grates familiar,/ the howling not unlike her stifled sobs".

On many evenings the actors not only feel the emotional impact of the play, they hear it, too, in the chorus of stifled sobs from reverent theatergoers, who seem to hang on every word.

"They could tell I was gay," he told me, through stifled sobs, looking out over the Beirut cityscape.

That miscue, Manchester wrote, "was like a catch in your voice, or a swiftly stifled sob".

"He's my boyfriend," said Elaine Jadacki, 42, turning away with a stifled sob.

That stifled sob gives Mr. Smith's lyrics an enviable urgency, whether as a sigh of ecstasy or an anguished lament.

I had never watched a movie in a theatre where there was mass crying — not discreet nose-blowing, or stifled sniffles, but wracking sobs.

Their silence isn't resonant; it's stifled, and stifling.

I detonate around him again and again, round and round, as my orgasm rips me apart, scorching through me like a wildfire consuming everything, my body pulsating and shaking …" As will yours, I guarantee, listening to Ms Battoe's bottomless coffer of stifled gasps, ullulating, moans, strangled shrieks, panting sobs, and so on.

He remained stifled, shy.