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How to use sigh in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word sigh? Here are some examples.

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She told herself to breathe a sigh of relief, but somehow the relief she'd expected didn't come.
I sank back in the hot water with a grateful sigh and closed my eyes as the tendrils of steam wound their way across the surface of the pool.
Alya breathed a heavy sigh of contentment as she washed herself with the wonderfully warm water.
I heard a loud frustrated sigh on the other end of the door and a loud banging sound.
They looked at each other for a moment, and then Lisa let out a sigh of what sounded like frustration.
The only sound was the sigh of the wind across the Pripyat marshes, accelerating to a low moan among the squat blocks of flats.
He could only hear the sigh of the wind flowing through the broken windows and the shrieks of birds.
All the hidden excitement that had been fluttering within her died like the flame of a candle with the sigh of a cold wind.
We were indeed parked in the student lot behind the school and I let out a sigh of relief as I slowly uncurled my fingers from the dashboard.
After struggling 27 kilometres up hill and down dale today, the relief is so palpable that I can almost hear all my limbs sigh in unison.
I stepped off the bottom stair and collapsed against the wall next to it, heaving a sigh of relief.
With the sigh of a man weighted down by a very large hair shirt, he accepts blame for making the mistake.
The other friend heaved a sigh and said he was totally dependent on his son who didn't give him any money.
Breathing hard, Jacob simply stared for a few more seconds before I heaved a harsh sigh and tugged off my headphones.
If you could cup your ear you could hear Republicans all over the country heaving a sigh of relief.
But instead of putting our feet up and heaving a sigh of relief, many of us are just beginning to realise how much we've actually spent.
The owners of the 150 properties engulfed by flood waters 15 months ago were not the only people heaving a sigh of relief.
For those who heave a sigh of relief a second shock is only a couple of hours away.
One suspects the government will now, after heaving a sigh of relief, quietly hand the issue over to doctors for them to sort out.
Motorists will be heaving a sigh of relief with the announcement the by-pass is due to open before Christmas.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The monk's watery eyes were rolled upward in pious disapproval, before he turned them earthward with a sigh of resignation.
Helena sat down on a sofa with a sigh of relief, and Ericson sat down beside her.
He sighed, heavily, and his sigh was echoed from the back seat of the carryall.
He remained a year with Mr. Drummond, and then commenced to sigh for a change.
The airy nothing of a sigh bears often a pastoral world or an orcus on its ephemeron's-wing.
He evoked a sigh from somewhere in the depths of his barrel chest, and tried to cast up his small red eyes.
With a little sigh of bafflement she took the last tightly rolled bundle of clothing from the suit-case.
He heaved a deep sigh at his own hypocrisy, and the Gabbai sighed in response.
Eat it with bath oliver biscuits, and sigh that the end should come so soon.
With a sigh she left the building and walked to dorr Street where she had left her maroon car.
I don't know whether someone punctured an air cushion just then, or whether it was me heavin' a sigh of relief.
The sigh of envy will merge into an exhalation of joy over the artistry of it.
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