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    Use "sigh" in a sentence

    sigh example sentences

    sigh


    sighed


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    sighs


    1. Before she could breathe a sigh of relief, he walked back over and started up again


    2. With a deep sigh, he turned on the antique chairs and smashed them to pieces until there wasn’t a chunk bigger than his fist


    3. ’ I said with a sigh


    4. Ackers let all the breath out of his lungs in one giant sigh


    5. It started up with a sigh


    6. ’ She said with a sigh


    7. Biggs gave a deep angry sigh then indicated the nearest house across the road from the small wooded area in which they stood


    8. She breathed a sigh of relief


    9. ’ The Inspector said with a sigh


    10. ’ He said with a heavy sigh

    11. ’ I said with a deep sigh


    12. heard a deep sigh followed by a long intake of breath


    13. ’ I agreed with a sigh


    14. Mimis ---> (Sigh) I LOVE YOU


    15. Walking back, arm in arm, through the chilly but star-lit night, I sigh happily


    16. ’ I said with a sigh, ‘I’ve always been the capable one


    17. After taking his first alleviating drink, he lets out a long sigh, trying to mock whoever may be listening


    18. Sigh: If you hear a sigh in your dream, something is wrong with your love life; if you sigh, you will have misfortune


    19. Behind him he heard a deep sigh followed by a long intake of breath


    20. He handed me a pick and with a deep sigh (and because he was

    21. Kara heaved a sigh of relief and left them to it


    22. Brijbabu heaved a sigh of relief and wiping at


    23. ’ He said with a sigh


    24. Images spring up in my memory: the face of the woman at the wayhouse mourning her grandchild … that sad mound beside the wasteg … too many have died already … the sigh that accompanies those thoughts is so heavy that Sefir turns her head to peer at me


    25. the sigh that softens stone and heart,


    26. the sigh on the point, the squall wraith,


    27. He flinches as I mention his friend’s name and for a moment I wonder if I have gone too far, but with a sigh, he holds out his hand for the plate I am clutching


    28. With a sigh, he sets about eating the bread and cheese


    29. not the sigh of rush held


    30. With a deep sigh, he stands up and walks over to the rail gazing down at the water rushing past before continuing, his voice low but audible above the sound of the sea

    31. I didn't feel my danger had passed for good, but for the moment I let out a sigh and we were on our way home


    32. A sigh of relief was let out of the open windows


    33. ’ He said with a sigh, his eyes fixed on something I cannot see


    34. There was a big sigh of relief from the Blue Dragons


    35. ” She let out a sigh, “that brings us up to here and now; kind of boring, huh?”


    36. That very evening, I would be there at last, sailing by the sigh of the salty sea in an almost diamond silence


    37. ‘Yes,’ she replied with a sigh, ‘and things are really hotting up … how was your day, Anna?’


    38. And burials have been found also,' he shook his head and gave a long and tender sigh


    39. At last, and with a sigh of relief from old Ted, the ancient oak tree was cut down and cleared away


    40. Matai breathed a sigh of relief

    41. I sigh, it all seems too complicated for words, maybe he would be better off if I just tell him I cannot marry him …


    42. How was your trip to North Wales?’ She starts telling me about it but a voice from her house calls out ‘Mum!’ and with a sigh she turns, promising that we will get together for a catch up session soon


    43. Above, Naria let out a sigh of relief


    44. Lord Boras left the Hall with a sigh of relief and as much dignity as he could muster; Naria had left him precious little


    45. arrived the old woman climbed into the rear seat with a weary sigh


    46. The computer system is not restored until just after eleven; you can almost hear the sigh of relief from the workforce when it is finally announced that we can log in


    47. ‘Oh, it is so good being back here!’ she exclaimed with an enormous sigh of contentment


    48. I let out the loudest sigh ever


    49. ’ Sally said with a sigh


    50. ‘That was a big sigh, Anna








































    1. Hermann sighed, letting himself relax


    2. He stared, then sighed


    3. "No, I guess it's not here," he sighed


    4. Johnny pulled a shirt on over his head and sighed when he could see Ackers’ angry face again


    5. Punka sighed with relief, groveling and thanking Chemall


    6. As he walked to the bar to fulfil his patron’s wish he sighed once and made the sign of


    7. "Who sighed this in?"


    8. If it was his idea to leave, his mother had probably called once from the front porch and sighed, then got on with her life


    9. "Yes," Tahlmute sighed, "We aren't equipped for this


    10. The bartender sighed a wall of bubbles and swam up to the highest shelf, about thirty feet above, where he fetched a crystalline bottle glowing so brightly blue-white that she almost needed sunglasses

    11. He sighed again, then sat down


    12. "Yeah," Jaseem sighed, "I understand


    13. It was late in the afternoon when we arrived at our hotel at Kryoneri: I sighed in disappointment as soon as I found out how small, noisy, isolated and miserable it is - nothing to do with the hotel we had seen on the leaflet


    14. He looked at her and sighed, knew he could hide nothing from her


    15. Herndon sighed, he was far from the most native among them


    16. "Your asteroid," Ernesto sighed and poured a shot of cachaca for them all


    17. "Yes," he sighed, she talked like such a native


    18. He sighed and raised his eyes to the battered woman lying in the hospital bed


    19. Oh Joris … what am I going to do without you? I’ve done what you asked of me … but what now? She sighed and closed her eyes, pressing her hands against the lids as if to contain the dreadful emptiness she felt


    20. She sighed and turned back to wipe away a stray tear

    21. The children sighed at the mention of their very much


    22. She sighed as she realized that the guileless young girl in


    23. lovely girl but such a short life she sighed as she turned


    24. She sighed as she tried to


    25. ’ She sighed heavily


    26. Cosmicblasto sighed, that was close


    27. "I could really go for that too," she sighed, "next time you're ready


    28. Daniel’s voice was almost desperate in tone, he sighed deeply, millions have died, only a handful of us left


    29. aah,” he sighed in relief


    30. Archibald turned to his would-be lover in the cage and taking her hand in his own he sighed

    31. ' He sighed a sad smile, indicating his remarkable performance was complete, and I watched the lady disappear inside the windmill


    32. “She’s feeling abandoned,” Alan sighed as they sank into the stand-cushions


    33. The soldier sighed, resigned to his fate


    34. At last she stood up and kissed my cheek and sighed, 'I'm off


    35. "Yeah it would be," she sighed


    36. Bling looked at her nails and sighed


    37. The old man sighed, turned back to Terry and said, "Better get this over with, then


    38. The Prime Minister sighed


    39. He sighed and squeezed himself down in stony silence


    40. He knew he had no chance of keeping it from her and sighed, “It was about some cherub from Alan's universe that someone was driving

    41. ” He sighed, “and she has a good demeanor about her


    42. Annie sighed, stuck her hands in her coat pockets and followed her brother along Barlow Moor Road towards the offices of Dawson, Dawson & Dawson, chosen by their father in happier times because he could always be sure of remembering the name of his solicitor when exceptional circumstances required the expertise of a legal beagle


    43. Heymon sighed, "I'd love to talk longer about this, but I have another appointment in just a few minutes


    44. ” Tarak sighed, “Six more with other wounds, but they will recover


    45. She sighed deeply and then quickly changed her tone calling out in a deep voice, “First Altera!”


    46. Then … well …’ He sighed, looking back over the years to something I cannot see


    47. He sighed and closed his eyes remembering


    48. her hand in his own he sighed


    49. sighed and said to his wife, “What the bloody hell are we going to


    50. ’ He sighed deeply, ‘Anna, it is so good to see you














































    1. Dad is sighing and looking listless


    2. Sighing with happiness, I reach into my handbag for my car keys and then walk up the drive to where my car is parked


    3. There was the clink of teacups, the sighing of the wind in Vincef's private court, but conversation lapsed


    4. Sighing and strangely reluctant to let it go, I hand it to Wiesse


    5. ‘Oh Lintze!’ he said sighing as he takes me in his arms and holds me tightly


    6. Tarak rolled over and stretched his large frame, sighing deeply


    7. “Oh, brother…” Andrew said, rolling his eyes and sighing


    8. He could see that Desa felt the same way from the cuddly way she leaned back on him sighing


    9. Sighing, I tackled my breakfast


    10. She stilled her motion briefly when her sighing made him turn

    11. Sighing, she parked her car after a time and entered a bar and had a quick drink


    12. Sighing, she stepped down from the stool, went to the rear of the house and locked the door


    13. Sighing again but this time with more agitation, she took his cock in hand and proceeded to lick the sides of it even as he licked her cunt


    14. Sighing deeply - the prick still in her mouth - she began to suck it in earnest, her heart beating faster by the moment


    15. They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break


    16. ‘So he did, so he did,’ said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both creatures hid their faces in their paws


    17. ” I found myself sighing as I remembered the cool fruit juice we sipped each morning


    18. Aspen snuggled into his hair, sighing contentedly before she lifted her head to kiss him gently on the lips


    19. His body was torn by damaging coughs until suddenly, in the midst of a cough, he stopped and took a deep, sighing breath


    20. A dove flew by, its wings sighing

    21. As we closed into the shore you could see the phosphorescence of the wave’s caps rolling and breaking on the shore and you could almost hear it lapping on the shingle and pebble shore sighing in its anticipation of the caress


    22. she asked, sighing a little as her eyes took in the beautiful view and soft breeze of the ocean hitting her face


    23. He imagined his future self sighing at his present self when remembering the naivete of this young(ish) captain, just as he had done over the foolish arrogance of Zolla the officer cadet


    24. She smiled and lay back against the bed, sighing in relief


    25. Sighing deeply, feeling somehow cheated, Grey shuddered, wondering if this would be the last time he'd see his beloved Brockenhurst Forest shake free from its winter mantle


    26. Then sighing heavily he stared down at the floor


    27. You know not My ways! For in some of you I hear sighing, unwarranted complaints and much sighing, as though My ways were a burden to you


    28. Sighing deeply, he looked up at me with his faded blue eyes, but he didn't say anything, just gave me a wane smile, while a single large tear rolled down his cheek


    29. Sighing heavily, she placed her cup in its saucer with the muted chink


    30. "What's this?" I asked, sighing heavily

    31. Sighing heavily, I took the flask from his hand and had a swallow, then held onto my seat as my head did its best to leave my shoulders


    32. Sighing, he went up to make a pot of tea


    33. 'So he did, so he did,' said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both creatures hid their faces in their paws


    34. Sighing loudly, I tried to concentrate on the end of the News programme that was now showing


    35. Shifting about uncomfortably in his seat, Uncle Hobart picked at a loose thread on his jumper, then clicked his dentures, sighing


    36. Sighing deeply, he shook his head and lowered the mobile, thumb already halfway to the delete button - but then hesitated


    37. It would probably be prudent to leave San José just in case it was suspected that she was involved, she mused, sighing


    38. Karla closed the kitchen door, hooked her handbag over the back of the captain’s chair, switched on the kettle and sat down, sighing deeply


    39. Digging out his pouch, he rolled himself a cigarette, sighing contentedly as he sucked the tobacco smoke deep into his lungs


    40. Sighing deeply, for these were schoolboys for the most part; I just had to ask

    41. Afterwards, when they were lying side by side, sated, Colling began moaning and sighing dramatically


    42. “Isn’t there someplace where we can sit for a minute?” she asked, sighing, “in the shade?” He pointed to a concrete bench under a tree opposite from the Customs and Immigration building


    43. Que calor, verdad, (what heat, right)?” she expounded, sighing as she sat at his side


    44. She stared blankly at the wall for a moment before bowing her head and sighing


    45. He then lowered his gaze and said after sighing:


    46. ‘What’s the sudden panic?’ said Trevor, sighing with relief as he headed them back towards the moon


    47. All there was to be heard was groaning and sighing


    48. “Can you believe it’s been a month since we came here, recently graduated, not a care in the world?” asked Ryan sighing


    49. their thumbs and sighing


    50. 10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones are consumed


































    1. He sighs and wipes his glasses on his shirt


    2. John looks at his phone, sees who it is, closes his eyes, sighs


    3. He shakes his head in frustration, sighs, takes a deep breath


    4. Dr Wright sighs heavily and his kindly eyes become steely for an instant, ‘Oh … Kate … oh dear


    5. her head on his chest, and she sighs softly,


    6. reinforcing the sighs of gulls on ancient winds,


    7. She sighs deeply before replying – oh dear, like that is it? I’m not terribly surprised though


    8. that never quite silence of sighs and cracks and rustles


    9. and sighs a hunter’s moon


    10. ’ I replied, and he sighs, ‘Now don’t you start getting maudlin too! One of us in the doldrums is enough!’

    11. The young man looked at his mother quizzically and let slip one of those long drawn out sighs that is the trademark of every thirty-something man who still lives at home with his dear old ma


    12. He sighs, ‘I wish I were there with you


    13. ’ His glance returns to Simon, there is a wistfulness to it and he sighs


    14. The window was open, the sounds of the bullring were distant, the grunts, moans and sighs of others engaging in pleasure was detectable in the still night air


    15. of those long drawn out sighs that is the trademark of every thirty-


    16. Ted sighs, reaches for his cigarettes, flips the top of the box, takes one out and taps it on the bar so that it slides vertically through his nicotine-yellow fingers


    17. The nurse sighs and flashes Alex a hard look that says; I knew it all along


    18. She sighs contentedly and snuggles under the covers, revelling in the luxury of the lie in


    19. She sighs deeply – this is far beyond her to work out


    20. It doesn't seem to get any clearer with the repetition and he sighs, stares out of the side window at the hedgerows and the fields, and goes over it again

    21. ” That admission raised eyes and prompted sighs from the others, “Seeing is highly overrated at times,” he added


    22. As we stepped into the room, there were five sighs


    23. She sighs with an eye roll


    24. The tension went out of our bodies and you could hear the sighs of relief all through the trench lines we had no idea why it had been cancelled only that it meant we wouldn’t be walking through the shadow of the valley of death today


    25. with her own sighs, will recognize


    26. Back alone in the room; she gave in to several long, deep sighs


    27. Al sighs too, his rib cage lifting and falling against my shoulder


    28. He sighs and grabs me by the elbow, half leading and half dragging me out of the room


    29. How do you think Peter and his idiot friends would have reacted if they discovered that you and I were…” He sighs


    30. “I was so hoping you would say Dauntless-leader-in-training,” sighs Christina

    31. Johanna sighs quietly and looks out the window


    32. After a long embrace amidst her sighs and squeaks, he plopped himself onto the couch


    33. He sighs, and touches his forehead to mine


    34. I expect him to sit down and read it, thus ending the conversation, but instead he sighs


    35. He sighs, but pulls the truck over to the side of the road


    36. ” He sighs, and eases on the brakes so the car slips to a stop by the side of the road


    37. 20 He looks with his eyes and groans, like a eunuch who embraces a virgin and sighs


    38. His face droops, then he sighs


    39. Bullhead shakes his head and sighs


    40. ” He sighs, releasing a sad breath

    41. The doctor turns to him, then to me, then sighs


    42. Brian sighs and shakes his head


    43. The doctor sighs: "Probably


    44. After a few seconds he sighs


    45. With a great jolting effort, Anup positions his head across my lap and sighs


    46. Zachary stares at me for a moment without saying anything, and sighs


    47. “I’m sorry; that was a joke,” he sighs


    48. Zachary leans in to touch my cheek with his, then sighs


    49. “This is cute!” Madeline sighs with excitement and stares at Zachary


    50. Zachary pauses for a minute, then sighs as he turns his back to me, hands on his waist












































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    Synonyms for "sigh"

    sigh suspiration suspire gasp groan moan lament cry breathe

    "sigh" definitions

    an utterance made by exhaling audibly


    a sound like a person sighing


    heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily


    utter with a sigh