sigh for
Example Sentences
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As he pedals madly through Tokyo’s streets, wearing Jake’s mandatory cheap suit and omnipresent backpack, we can heave a collective sigh for our youth.
From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2022
Every day, Augusta Melville copied the pages her brother had written the day before, work that kept her from her own reading: “I quite sigh for leisure in which to satisfy my literary thirst.”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019
That Ms. Swift would go sigh for sigh with Future’s warbles would have been unthinkable five years ago, but here, in a twist, the person who sounds least at home is Mr. Sheeran.
From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2017
The tree does not sigh for the elephant, the robin does not fret for the boar; they are not made melancholy or sleepless by the pastness of the past.
From The Guardian • May 24, 2013
She finished her stew, cleaned the bowl out with sand at the shore of the lake, and waited with a sigh for her mother to ask her to fetch the deer-bone scraper.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
