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sobbed

verb

past tense of sob

as in cried

to shed tears often while making meaningless sounds as a sign of pain or distress the child sobbed when she found the dead frog

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Recent Examples of sobbed Judge William Sullivan sent the jury out of the courtroom twice Wednesday afternoon as Clancy sobbed loudly during testimony about her children. — Penny Kmitt, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026 Testimony in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy was interrupted multiple times on Wednesday, as the Massachusetts woman audibly sobbed in response to testimony about the autopsies of her deceased children. — ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026 Melina's family members held onto each other and sobbed as the guilty verdicts were read, according to Canadian Press. — Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 11 Aug. 2026 On Thursday, Clancy loudly sobbed, shuddered and covered her face with her hands as a medical examiner testified about Callan’s autopsy. — Andi Babineau, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026 Kelly, typically a non-demonstrative engineer, retreated to the airplane bathroom and sobbed. — Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026 Gartshore, who pleaded not guilty, sobbed after the verdict was read, BBC News reported. — Nicole Acosta, PEOPLE, 16 July 2026 On the first day of the trial, during Srebnick’s opening argument, Pino sobbed in front of the jury, leading the judge to pause proceedings. — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 22 June 2026 Onlookers sobbed and smiled as the memorial played, and passed each other packets of tissues. — Reeti Malhotra may 23, Sacbee.com, 23 May 2026

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Students streamed out of the Debsirin Nonthaburi School, on the capital's northwestern outskirts, as the wounded were loaded on to ambulances and teachers hugged each other and cried.

— Chalinee Thirasupa, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Some jurors cried while others looked distraught during the testimony.

— Kristina Rex, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026

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Vlasova, who during her years in Russian detention had watched countless times as others were freed and she was left behind, wept.

— Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Clancy, 35, wept at the defense table as ex-husband Patrick Clancy and other witnesses testified last week about the killings.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026

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