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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
sob .
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Examples
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Ahlin sobbed: "No, no – not if you don't love me, Cesca; I don't want you to ...."
Jenny: A Novel 1921
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Yes, apparently: In the press notes, producer Jenno Topping claims that she "sobbed" after reading the script.
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Country Strong Marshall Fine 2011
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After a half an hour of huffing and puffing, while I just kind of sobbed quietly and tried to remain patient, he suddenly calmed down.
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After a half an hour of huffing and puffing, while I just kind of sobbed quietly and tried to remain patient, he suddenly calmed down.
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But what of Moss, who notably "sobbed" at the close of the first Piven-less Speed-the-Plow?
Gawker: Defamer 2009
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The NY Post spoke to Jessica Dude, 26, who was planning on flying to LA: She "sobbed" to the reporter, "I'm going to have Christmas in Brooklyn for the first time ...
Gothamist 2009
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Surow sobbed in a squatting position as fellow mourners tried to console him.
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"I tried to pull Sgt. Krueger with me," Kale sobbed, also via video from Kandahar.
Through hours of wrenching testimony, Ft. Hood psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan shows no emotion Ann E. Gerhart 2010
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"I tried to pull Sgt. Krueger with me," Kale sobbed, also via video from Kandahar.
Through hours of wrenching testimony, Ft. Hood psychiatrist Nidal Malik Hasan shows no emotion Ann Gerhart 2010
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Surow sobbed in a squatting position as fellow mourners tried to console him.
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