sigh
verb (used without object)
to let out one's breath audibly, as from sorrow, weariness, or relief.
has been sighing
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present perfect progressiveof sigh (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Maunder has been sighing for the last ten minutes, and I know what that means.
From Antony Gray,—Gardener by Leslie Moore
To make vocal, to translate into reality all the world has been sighing for—striving after.
From The Everlasting Arms by Joseph Hocking
The sympathetic friend, for whom he has been sighing all his life, is found.
From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by John Addington Symonds
Ever since they returned from their honeymoon in Denver, she has been sighing to run the house,” said Mrs. Brewster, “feeding the fire” carefully.
From Polly in New York by Lillian Elizabeth Roy
He has been sighing like a Sybarite These six weeks past, and now he sends to me To hire my bravo.
From Count Alarcos; a Tragedy by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
