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
Hedy Phillips, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
By the time guests sigh and lean back, the woods outside the windows are black.
—Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 2 Dec. 2024
Jeff Marks, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2024
The y’alls and dropped g’s, the heavy sighs and the girlish giggles were still there.
—John Branch, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Verb
The teen then poses for the camera with her hip jutted out to the side to show off her low-waist jeans as Lakshmi sighs in defeat.
—Hedy Phillips, People.com, 16 Dec. 2024
By the time guests sigh and lean back, the woods outside the windows are black.
—Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 2 Dec. 2024
Noun
This looks like a sigh of relief for Broadcom shareholders, at least for now, because previous reporting suggested Apple planned on dropping Broadcom’s chip next year.
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 6 Dec. 2024
The y’alls and dropped g’s, the heavy sighs and the girlish giggles were still there.
—John Branch, New York Times, 24 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sigh
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By midday Wednesday, distressed Santa Monica residents gasped in the smoke and strained against 40-mph wind gusts, dragging pets and suitcases to their cars to flee the mandatory evacuation zone north of San Vicente.Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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In December 2024, Gomez reacted to her double nomination with a video on her Instagram Stories, in which gasped and buried her face in her hands after her name was called in the movies category.Raven Brunner, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
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Recent whispers from Washington suggest that tariffs are unlikely to be broad.Ganesh Rao, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
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Veteran journalist Kim Osorio appears in the doc and says that there were whispers that Porter was a victim of Combs’ abuse, and an attorney for a client who sued Combs says her client witnessed acts of violence against Porter.Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
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That’s also why his obsessive huffing on a locket holding a lock of hair from Lily-Rose Depp’s Ellen, the woman he’s been obsessed with since her youth, is so unexpectedly funny.Vulture Staff, Vulture, 26 Dec. 2024
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Pad see ew huffed with smokiness, the wok hei seared so deeply into the wide noodles that its potency could withstand even the indignities of carryout containers.Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2024
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Karen has largely been taciturn about her upcoming court dates and general circumstance, but Mia kicks the door open by mentioning that Karen seemingly drunk dialed Jacqueline recently, prompting a series of nervous murmurs around the table.Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
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There are other types of innocent heart murmurs, all with varying characteristics.Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 2 Oct. 2024
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To purge their body of nitrogen, an astronaut needs to breathe pure oxygen for a few hours, both before and after donning a spacesuit.Regina Kim, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
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Too many people breathe out while their head is out of the water, Ms. Peluse said.Erik Vance, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2025
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Then its driver revved the engine, as if to snort, and peeled out down Lexington Avenue.Christopher Bonanos, Curbed, 5 Jan. 2025
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Drug dealers grew into friends, who invited him to parties where everybody was snorting coke out in the open.Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2025
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The guides here are known for being able to sniff out powder even several days after a storm.Cassidy Randall, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
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Sure, real Hermès Birkin owners can sniff out the difference 5,000 miles away and may scoff at a bag that’s literally tens of thousands of dollars less, but people are saying the $229 version is high quality, gorgeous, and is giving Hermès a run for its money.Gina Vaynshteyn, StyleCaster, 30 Dec. 2024
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The ultimate effect is paradoxical: the more that Valéry eliminates the ghost of pain and passion from the logical machinery of his work, the starker and more affecting the moans and cries of the ghost become.Benjamin Kunkel, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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Against Notre Dame, the collective moan in the Coliseum with yet another last-minute loss because of Riley’s poor play calling was the breaking point for this lifelong Trojan.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
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“Sigh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sigh. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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