sigh

Example Sentences

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"It looks like someone left it there, hopped off to whatever they were doing and never thought about the scooter again," he tells me with an exasperated sigh.

From BBC

Instead, he mumbled something under his breath about creating a law to ban all exploring in his neighborhood, before sighing and finally heading up to join Duane.

From Literature

Finally, she gave a deep sigh, just as if she had dropped something heavy from her shoulders.

From Literature

Gran closed her eyes and sighed, as if talking about my parents took great amounts of energy.

From Literature

But instead of taking a sorrowful approach, nearly all of the tracks were upbeat and felt more like elated sighs of relief rather than regret.

From The Wall Street Journal