Word Finder - sighing

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To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like.

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He sighed over the lost opportunity.

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To lament; to grieve.

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To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.

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To experience an emotion associated with sighing.

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He silently sighed for his lost youth.

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To make a sound like sighing.

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To exhale (the breath) in sighs.

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She sighed a sigh that was nearly a groan.

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To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.

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"I guess I have no choice," she sighed.

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The utterance of a sigh.

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the groanings and sighings of the dying man

Sighing again, she opened her door.

The countess lowered her eyes, sighing deeply.

Gio hesitated before sighing.

And sighing disdainfully, he again changed his position.

Sighing deeply, he told Rita he was finished for the day, jogged down the stairs to his car, and fought the late afternoon crosstown traffic to Ethel Rosewater's office.

Oh, thank god, she said, sighing.

She dropped into the car and started it, sighing at the throaty growl.

They got out, and she lingered, sighing in happiness at the pleasure she was likely never to experience again after this week.

Sighing, he turned around and started back up the rutted path.

She didn't object when his fangs bit into her, instead sighing as the comforting warmth consumed her.

She sat, patted Jack, and lifted the warm soup, sighing.

Sighing, Jessi tried tapping the ground, waving her fingers, even using her ponytail to try to lure the cat out.

Well, the great British tradition of shouting, sighing and pointing hasn't muttered its last " bloody foreigners " yet.

Nicholas replied that he could not go back on his word, and his father, sighing and evidently disconcerted, very soon became silent and went in to the countess.

He dropped the rag from his mouth and rolled his eyes, sighing with exasperation.

The first mouthful tasted like bitter honey and she drank the bottle down, sighing again.

First she heard her mother praying and sighing and the creaking of her bed under her, then Madame Schoss' familiar whistling snore and Sonya's gentle breathing.

My brother dined with me yesterday--we nearly died of laughter--he ate nothing and kept sighing for you, my charmer!