as in to gasp
to take in and let out a deep audible breath or to make a similar sound
Mom always used to sigh loudly whenever she found a mess on the floor—which was often a breeze sighed through the leaves
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Recent Examples of sigh
Tim Grierson, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
At one time, the vice president turned and seemingly sighed at something the two men were laughing about.
—Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 9 Jan. 2025
Erika Owen, Architectural Digest, 21 Mar. 2025
But his energy one morning gave her a sigh of relief.
—William Lambers, Newsweek, 7 Mar. 2025
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Verb
Ferrell bugs his eyes out and sighs a series of increasingly desperate spit-takes, but this project was probably doomed from the get-go.
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The moody interior color palette is like a big, happy sigh—couple that with the sound of a light rainfall for some wedding ASMR.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for sigh
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The crowd was left gasping in shock when the woman surprisingly began giving the berries live tongue action without hesistation.—
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The second clip teased the level of gore fans can expect from the film, with a scene of bloody child endangerment that made multiple audience members gasped and looked away.—
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Some people are forthright when Boulet asks, with a cameraman in tow, a question that is often not spoken, or at most in a locker-room whisper.—
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In truth, whispers have been circulating for months that a The Row homewares line might be in the works.—
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Or flesh—notice the tiny worker huffing up the steps in the top right.—
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Adding in a motor has made cargo bikes much more workable for those riders who would like the convenience and capacity of a cargo bike but have hesitated in the past due to their own physical condition and the prospect of huffing a cargo bike up hills or across town.—
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Despite some murmurs about The White Lotus losing its bite—or at least taking its sweet time to return—the HBO show proved its staying power in a big way.—
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The soft murmur of a few dozen conversations lingered outside a small auditorium named after Lyndon Baines Johnson, the 36th president who overhauled the way Americans pay for college.—
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While the evidence does not support the use of cinnamon tea for nausea and vomiting, people who drink the tea do breathe in cinnamon vapors along with ingesting cinnamon and may experience similar results.—
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The topper, incorporating wool and horsehair, allows the mattress to breathe, as opposed to foam mattresses.—
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Sometimes people are aspiring to be more productive or to stay awake, but the drugs are also used recreationally, and can produce a high by swallowing, smoking or snorting the medication — or injecting it into the bloodstream.—
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Directly opposite the Pendry stands the notorious Riot House Bar (now Andaz West Hollywood) where Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones snorted and cavorted in the ’60s and ’70s.—
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Bring your dog to sniff out eggs filled with treats!—
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Also, sniff for lychee, pistachio, bergamot, and Turkish rose.—
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None of these moans are intended to dismiss the importance of clever in-jokes and references to past adventures.—
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Tonally registering as if carved from a medium-hard piece of oak, his transparent deliveries — mellow whispers, conversational assertions, longing moans, resolute cries — served as effective vessels for those character sketches and autobiographical reflections.—
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“Sigh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sigh. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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