Example Sentences

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“This is so great. If I’m dead, I want you to know I will be sighing at you from heaven every time you ask someone to share their feelings.”

From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green

No more rice and cotton fields We will hear no more crying Old master will be sighing.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Maryland Narratives by Work Projects Administration

Yet see, monseigneur, how dull we shall be; I shall be low-spirited because I know that Madame will be alone; you, hard and savage as you wish to appear, will be sighing all the while.

From Ten Years Later by Dumas père, Alexandre

Then I'll be a laurel-crowned hero, having whaled out the Yankees to a frizzle, and all the fair ones will be sighing for my hand and heart!

From Leah Mordecai by Abbott, Belle K. (Belle Kendrick)