Examples of sob story in a Sentence
She told a sob story about how she had to starve herself to pay for the rent.
I don't want to hear any of your sob stories.
Recent Examples on the Web
None of those videos were meant to sound like a sob story.
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Jordan Greene, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
Granted, $7 million with performance incentives is a galaxy away from a sob story.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
But the change of clothes did not hide the horrors the girl had gone through, and Candelario’s sob story started unraveling.
—Faith Karimi, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
There’s the sob story, the gallant bildungsroman, the louche chronicle of various addictive behaviors, the righteous making of an activist, the victory lap.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
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Jordan Greene, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
Granted, $7 million with performance incentives is a galaxy away from a sob story.
—Bryce Miller, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Apr. 2024
But the change of clothes did not hide the horrors the girl had gone through, and Candelario’s sob story started unraveling.
—Faith Karimi, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
There’s the sob story, the gallant bildungsroman, the louche chronicle of various addictive behaviors, the righteous making of an activist, the victory lap.
—Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
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“Sob story.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sob%20story. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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