Converse of object

• choke: One day, my brothers, hearing great choking sobs coming from my room rushed in to my aid.

• hear: It was not for himself alone he spoke, hearing sobs from hamlet to hamlet, poverty anchoring on the land like a plague.

• muffle: Do I hear the muffled sobs of a Wounded Child?

Adjective modifier

• hysterical: Back to Shannon whose screams are mixed with hysterical sobs.

• deep: Cries of anguish burst from within deep whooping sobs racked his body.

Modifying Another Word

• loudly: The look on his face ⦠I burst into a fit of tears, sobbing loudly.

• quietly: Ruth, who is eight years old, was sobbing quietly.

• again: She was sitting in the living room, sobbing again.

Modifies a noun

• story: Anything with a bit of a sob story always wins me over.

Preposition: in

• corner: I'm now a sad person, and shall go sob in a corner.

Preposition: like

• baby: It was very sad and I have been unable to talk about him at work today without sobbing like baby.