sigh
Example Sentences
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Then, with a sigh: “I’m trying not to think about it. I love my house.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026
I asked a minister what would happen if the so-called King of the North didn't win - their answer was best described as a painful sigh.
From BBC • May 16, 2026
“Oh, yes, the boring religious one,” a friend said with something of a sigh, asked if she had any better recollection than I about Mary Bennet, the middle child in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
While the Middle East was breathing a sigh of relief at the U.S.-Iran cease-fire, a big-money battle was raging at Polymarket.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
A deep whooshing sort of sigh, like some important part of her is slipping out of her mouth and into the cold night air.
From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy
Vocabulary lists containing sigh
"The Road Not Taken"
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"We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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"The House on Mango Street" and "The Road Not Taken"
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