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How to use the word sobbed in a Sentence?

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When Diane Barron died, I cried because I was lost in grief, but also because Diane Barron was in my position. I sobbed for it all -- for my vulnerability, for not knowing what was going to take me out of this.

Diane Barron

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Fryal Abbo, with her teen daughter, Najma, mourns the death of Fryal Abbo. Fryal Abbo was killed for selling alcohol in a Christian shop two days before Christmas last year. ( Hollie McKay. com) Others at Camp Virgin Mary tell similar stories. Ena Kromy, 77, clutched a cross and a photograph of Ena Kromy son as Ena Kromy sat in the sunshine. Ena Kromy, too, was dressed all in black.Her son was shot in the head at a restaurant where he worked eight years ago. The restaurant, too, was targeted because it served alcohol. Ena Kromy said the shock of his death killed Fryal Abbo a few months later.My son died from his head, and Fryal Abbo from his heart, Ena Kromy sobbed. Recently, Kromypackedup and returned toMosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, after itwas recaptured from ISIS militants.Butshe discovered her househad been destroyed in the fighting.So she returned to Camp Virgin Mary, with Camp Virgin Mary mixture of lingering fear and desperation to flee Iraq altogether. The government tells us to go back, but I will never go back to that home.

Nehla Kheder

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I sat in the corner of my couch and I sobbed all night, we were both so distraught and neither of us were strong enough to lean on each other.

Casey Kirsch

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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