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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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Slumping back in his seat, the head of Sleet house let out a quiet sigh as he watched his false friends retreat from the table.
I throw myself onto the other bed, letting out a long sigh of weariness and relief.
I narrowed my eyes at him but let out a sigh and resigned myself to the fact that he was right.
Japan can breathe a momentary sigh of relief after the release of three Japanese hostages.
Since the old adage of a little of what you fancy doing you good is now applicable to chocolate, we can all breathe a sigh of relief.
He'd done so grudgingly and he'd breathed a sigh of relief when Stephan had left home at the age of twenty to marry a Romany girl.
Terry pushed his regrets aside with a sigh and kept walking, hoping to find suitable lodgings for the night.
With a heavy sigh, he popped the glove compartment and pulled out a pocket flashlight.
There was an almost discernible sigh of relief over evidence of resilience in house prices.
I make my way back to the school when I hear a very audible sigh from Garret.
She pressed a button to disconnect, chucked the cordless onto the counter and then collapsed onto a nearby couch with a heavy sigh.
With an exasperated sigh, she stood and sat by the fire, poking the embers absent-mindedly with a stick.
Harel heard her sigh and looked at her poking her food on the fine china plate with the silver cutlery.
A sigh of accomplishment escaped from my mouth as I finally pulled out an old book, tattered and torn.
The keeper dives, and the shot gets saved, or it drops into the back of the net, the fans sigh or groan on cue, and the game goes on.
With a bit of a sigh she sat down at the base of a tree and leaned back against the trunk.
Once everyone was cowering inside a protective ring of wagons, carts, and horses, Hasim breathed a sigh of relief.
He exhaled a sigh of contentment as he glanced at the gold band that encompassed the ring finger of his left hand.
Happy to find the entire field and stands empty, she plonked herself on the bottom seat and let out a heavy sigh.
I was about to breathe a sigh of relief when they ballooned out and started to parachute down in the middle of the courtyard.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The airy nothing of a sigh bears often a pastoral world or an orcus on its ephemeron's-wing.
The sigh of envy will merge into an exhalation of joy over the artistry of it.
With a sigh she left the building and walked to dorr Street where she had left her maroon car.
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 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 sighed, heavily, and his sigh was echoed from the back seat of the carryall.
Eat it with bath oliver biscuits, and sigh that the end should come so soon.
He remained a year with Mr. Drummond, and then commenced to sigh for a change.
I don't know whether someone punctured an air cushion just then, or whether it was me heavin' a sigh of relief.
It seemed to exhale from the land itself, a prolonged sigh as of deep fatigue.
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