sigh
verb (used without object)
to let out one's breath audibly, as from sorrow, weariness, or relief.
had been sighing
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past perfect progressiveof sigh.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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In being hearing something she was one who had been sighing.
From Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories by Gertrude Stein
On Ida's mount he had been sighing forlorn and lonely yet, methinks.
From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Jeffery Farnol
Nakwisi jumped with joy when they told her; she, too, had been sighing for some place to go.
From The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey
His companion was not the first man who had said the same thing, and yet before half the year was out had been sighing for another woman's favor.
From The Light That Lures by Percy James Brebner
And as evil fate would have it, a carved book-case, the very thing he had been sighing for, for years, was at that moment the object of the auctioneer's praises.
From Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
