had sighed
- past perfect of sigh.
Example Sentences
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“It’s not going to be a fairytale ending,” John Terry had sighed shortly after announcing his own premature Chelsea exit in January last year.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2017
Hamre, numbed by the technical detail, had sighed and said, “Ken, you’re giving me a headache.”
From Slate ● Mar. 7, 2016
Many observers, over the week, had sighed that it was far too much fuss and carry-on over a football bust-up, and the case should never have come to court.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2012
In London, Christabel Pankhurst, onetime militant suffragist, window-smasher, picket of Parliaments, had sighed meekly.
From Time Magazine Archive
Aphrodite had sighed and waxed nostalgic about the good old days of the Civil War—how love and war always went hand in hand.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
