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Sigh   /saɪ/   Listen
Sigh

noun
1.
An utterance made by exhaling audibly.  Synonym: suspiration.
2.
A sound like a person sighing.
verb
(past & past part. sighed; pres. part. sighing)
1.
Heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily.  Synonym: suspire.
2.
Utter with a sigh.






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"Sigh" Quotes from Famous Books



... with a sigh, We wondered... Our minds evolved grim hordes of huns, Our bruised hearts sank beneath the guns, On our very souls they thundered. Can you wonder?—Can you wonder, That we wondered, As we heard the huns' guns thunder? That we looked in one another's ...
— 'All's Well!' • John Oxenham

... in this trial which may be worth observing. A letter between Mary and Babington was read, in which mention was made of the earl of Arundel and his brothers: on hearing their names, she broke into a sigh. "Alas," said she, "what has the noble house of the Howards suffered for my sake!" She affirmed, with regard to the same letter, that it was easy to forge the handwriting and cipher of another; she was afraid that this was too familiar a practice with Walsingham, who, she also heard, had frequently ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. - From Elizabeth to James I. • David Hume

... presented a sight which would have appealed strongly to their distant friends in the east had they been able to see it. Seldom did any figure stir and the weird silence was unbroken save by an occasional sigh of the wind as it swept past the dwarfed trees ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay

... great, deep sigh of thankfulness, and leaned limply back in the carriage. "Oh, papa," she exclaimed, "you can't imagine what a relief it is to hear that! I felt so much to blame, that now it seems as if a great weight had been lifted ...
— The Little Colonel's House Party • Annie Fellows Johnston

... discontent which leaves no possible margin for hope for the morrow. If one could only make a virtue of the resignation which is thrust upon one by an undaunted destiny," she concluded with a long-drawn sigh, "one might be the better ...
— The Doctor's Daughter • "Vera"


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