Verb (used with object) : to sob oneself to sleep. From Dictionary.com.
One afternoon he came in sobbing, with his golden curls full of burrs. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of Avonlea] Reference
I cry every time I read it and begin sobbing halfway through the animated movie. From Wordnik.com. [My Ten Books « So Many Books] Reference
His heart is pounding; his head is reeling; his breath is coming in sobbing gasps!. From Wordnik.com. [Pass the Puns, Please, Hallowe’en Style @ Attack of the Redneck Mommy] Reference
One morning I came in sobbing that there was something wrong - the chickens were sick!. From Wordnik.com. [Toast:] Reference
Till the silence of our sobbing is the prayer the Master hears. From Wordnik.com. [Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems] Reference
Creel squatted beside Sirratt, noting that her sobbing was a sign of the transition to actual labor. From Wordnik.com. [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette stories] Reference
And so I left him, and ere I reached the door I knew that his sobbing was a prayer, that his heart had found peace and rest. From Wordnik.com. [The Jucklins A Novel] Reference
His sobbing is so soft, comforting. From Wordnik.com. [pins and needles | clusterflock] Reference
But it always read that she was sobbing, which isn’t all that funny. From Wordnik.com. [Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Marcus Hart explains how to self-publish and promote a book] Reference
Foreheads were rubbed in the dust, and then adoring eyes would be raised, while a kind of sobbing shook the worshippers. From Wordnik.com. [Prester John] Reference
(NED runs sobbing from the room). From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Winning The War On Talking Points] Reference
Isabel's breath came in short sobbing gasps. From Wordnik.com. [Greatheart] Reference
You know the kind of sobbing where you can't breathe??. From Wordnik.com. [Loser with Socks] Reference
The captain gave a kind of sobbing laugh, and went on in a lower tone. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Eye of the Needle A Romance] Reference
She recalled sobbing and telling her father, "Daddy, I will never get married. ''. From Wordnik.com. Reference
I sat on my couch and sobbed that heaving kind of sobbing that leaves you breathless, the chest tight. From Wordnik.com. [A Mom, a Blog, and the Life In-Between] Reference
It struggled to its forefeet, uttered a kind of sobbing groan, stared round wildly, and rolled over, dead. From Wordnik.com. [Benita, an African romance] Reference
The note is joyous only in the poet's fancy, just as he has also read sadness into the "sobbing" of the nightingale. From Wordnik.com. [Birds in the Calendar] Reference
The opposite door was ajar, and from within came a kind of sobbing moan, and a low, feeble, faltering voice faintly singing. From Wordnik.com. [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference
At moments it was quiet; then to the ears of the old man came some great sigh, then a kind of sobbing, and again threatening outbursts. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Polish, Greek, Belgian, Hungarian] Reference
She found him in his room, sobbing in front of the TV. From Wordnik.com. [In Scandal's Shadow] Reference
"I liked him very much," her husband testified, sobbing. From Wordnik.com. [Should Mcveigh Die?] Reference
I asked, putting an arm around the sobbing bundle before me. From Wordnik.com. [Divorce Is Hard For Adult Children Too] Reference
He climbed into the back of the ambulance and sat there, sobbing. From Wordnik.com. [The Day That Changed America] Reference
When they gave it to me, I clutched it to my chest, sobbing like an animal. From Wordnik.com. [The Warrior Returns] Reference
"We feel like the heart has been cut out of us," she said, sobbing once more. From Wordnik.com. [The Day Kennedy Died] Reference
"I'm fighting with my life and John's life for these babies," she said, sobbing. From Wordnik.com. [Trouble in East Texas] Reference
I called my close girlfriends sobbing from the unfairness and helplessness I felt. From Wordnik.com. [Unsupported Support] Reference
He had taken shrapnel in his calf, and his sobbing mother rushed outside to embrace him. From Wordnik.com. [In The Thick Of It] Reference
There the silence was broken by the same pitiful sobbing, but the mourners were invisible. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Lincoln Died] Reference
I leave the sobbing widow in the hands of the fire dispatcher and disconnect from the call. From Wordnik.com. [Holding The 911 Line] Reference
"There's no way I would have checked that," the sobbing, unnamed woman reportedly told the paper. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics And Embryos] Reference
At one point this uninvited guest collapses into Fukue's lap sobbing, "Tell me it will be all right.". From Wordnik.com. [Help! I Need Somebody] Reference
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