sob

Object

• story: He's also a sucker for the sob stories he hears helping out at his local legal advice center pro bono!
• story: She shares her sob story with Geoff's wife.
• child: Picture a sobbing child sitting in his mother's lap.

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

• great: But my child " For a moment he seemed choked, and a great sob rose in his throat.
• hysterical: Back to Shannon whose screams are mixed with hysterical sobs.
• deep: Cries of anguish burst from within deep whooping sobs racked his body.

Modifies a noun

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

Modifying Another Word

• uncontrollably: At the end of the play Pandora was sobbing uncontrollably.
• bitterly: The Princess lay prone upon a couch, sobbing bitterly.
• loudly: The look on his face ⦠I burst into a fit of tears, sobbing loudly.
• aloud: She rushed toward him and, seizing him in her arms, sobbed aloud upon his bosom.
• quietly: Ruth, who is eight years old, was sobbing quietly.
• again: She was sitting in the living room, sobbing again.

Used with why or when

• when: Sometimes people sound like they're sobbing when they try to laugh.

Preposition: in

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

Preposition: with

• joy: She sat in the mixed zone, where the athletes collect their kit, sobbing with joy.

Preposition: like

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