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How to use sigh of relief in a sentence

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With a sigh of relief, she had watched the steel grey clouds roll away and watery sunshine glimmer through.
I stepped off the bottom stair and collapsed against the wall next to it, heaving a sigh of relief.
I agreed, breathing a sigh of relief that his request seemed to be innocent and harmless enough.
If you could cup your ear you could hear Republicans all over the country heaving a sigh of relief.
John knelt and checked for a pulse, he heaved a sigh of relief when he found one, Jim wouldn't die just yet.
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.
Much of Northern Taiwan breathed a sigh of relief yesterday as heavy rains fell around the country yesterday evening.
I think my readers in San Miguel de Allende might breathe a collective sigh of relief over this announcement.
Japan can breathe a momentary sigh of relief after the release of three Japanese hostages.
Heaving herself up with some difficulty, she peered over the edge and let out a sigh of relief.
And each time I left the little rooms I would hear another almost inaudible sigh of relief from behind me.
I closed my eyes, breathing a sigh of relief, feeling the intoxicating sense of victory wash over me.
She breathed a sigh of relief, and felt her heart give a warm flutter of excitement.
Adam stretched out and grabbed the first thing off the credenza his hand hit and breathed a sigh of relief.
In fact, the nearest the film had to a reaction was the sigh of relief that swept through the audience when the credits started to roll.
They scan the newly furrowed earth for tiny shoots of green and give a small sigh of relief when they find them.
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We compromised on Pokey's malt shop at the corner and finally settled with a sigh of relief in a booth way at the back.
Helena sat down on a sofa with a sigh of relief, and Ericson sat down beside her.
Then I heard a long-drawn sigh of relief, as tooter drew himself a foaming stein-ful of the Dortmunder beer.
England, apparently with a sigh of relief, lays aside her hair shirt, and proves that she has been wearing a silk vest under it.
Heaving a sigh of relief, Wilbur crossed gingerly to the safety island and waited for his car.
I don't know whether someone punctured an air cushion just then, or whether it was me heavin' a sigh of relief.
The doctor always groaned when he got the first glimpse of housecleaning, and gave a sigh of relief when it was over.
The mother gave a sigh of relief, but she did not interrupt, nor did she relax the tautness of her body.
He turned half around as he flumped himself down with a sigh of relief, and, with a red flash of tongue, kissed Steward's foot.
When Mr. bakewell had finished his speech he heaved a sigh of relief.
Kingozi dropped that bottle into his side pocket with a sigh of relief.
He heaved a Brobdingnagian sigh of relief when they finished.
Chicken Little heaved a sigh of relief when she caught sight of him.
This was continued for a few moments, then it was softened into a glad surprise, and from his lips came a sigh of relief.
She caught a glimpse of him in the mirror, and heaved a sigh of relief.
So he bolted his breakfast, a sickly, sloppy affair, as rapidly as they, and heaved a sigh of relief when he passed out through the kitchen door.
Kara breathed a sigh of relief and his face was wreathed in smiles.
It was with a sigh of relief that their chieftain saw the party disappear about a headland a short distance up-river.
Fillmore heaved a sigh of relief and began to sidle from the room.
With a sigh of relief, but with unabated caution, he gently slid the trapdoor to one side far enough to permit him to raise his eyes above the level of the roof.
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