Example Sentences

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The team is sighing with relief when Kendall, of WDC, sidles up to Kowalcyk, quietly telling her the man next to Paul asked whether he could go inside, too.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2023

What the commentators should be doing is sighing with relief.

From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2012

I can tell because she is sighing more than usual.

From "The One and Only Ivan" by Katherine Applegate

The grand old tree is sighing out a farewell.

From Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lynch, Lawrence L.

The wind is sighing plaintively through the trees that arch above her head, the thousand dying leaves are fluttering to her feet.

From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)