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For every woman who has told me about their perimenopausal life, another younger woman has sighed to me that they can’t wait.

From The Guardian • May 19, 2019

But now, even Secretary of State John Kerry, the eternal optimist of diplomacy, has sighed and doused the flame.

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2016

"Poor Mexico," many a Mexican has sighed, "so far from God, so near the United States."

From Time Magazine Archive

Each time the President has set up a big new agency, most of the citizenry has sighed a whoosh of relief and gone off about their business.

From Time Magazine Archive

Is it, that oft since then my heart has sighed, As Youth, and Hope's delusive gleams, flew fast!

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George