Get to know Sigh better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like emit or utter.
Sigh in a sentence
Related words
Sigh meaning
- To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like.
- To lament; to grieve.
- To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
Synonyms of Sigh
Using Sigh
- The main meaning on this page is: To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, frustration, or the like. | To lament; to grieve. | To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
- Useful related words include: suspire, let out, emit, utter.
- In the example corpus, sigh often appears in combinations such as: sigh of, breathe sigh, breathed sigh.
Context around Sigh
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 10 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sigh
- In this selection, "sigh" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, collective, nothing, ladies and deer stand out and add context to how "sigh" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include breathe a sigh of relief and a collective sigh of relief. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sigh" sits close to words such as adversary, bleed and compel, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sigh
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Or maybe to emit a long sigh that expresses both melancholy and consent. (13 words)
Britain, Australia and those aspiring for freedom everywhere, breathed a huge sigh of relief. (14 words)
From that day forward, our beloved Zack Morris Motorola DynaTAC cell phone was illegal (sigh). (15 words)
Lakers fans will most likely be able to breathe a sigh of relief since James came out to be recognized for breaking the NBA’s all-time scoring mark at the end of halftime alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone. (41 words)
Glow Up fans can breathe a sigh of relief as Dominic Skinner and the Ding Dong queen herself Val Garland will be back on the jugding panel as they search for Britain’s “next make-up star”. (37 words)
It was a sigh of relief for Mage’s trainer, Gustavo Delgado Sr., who won three Venezuelan Triple Crowns before coming to the United States in 2014 to set his sights on winning America’s biggest races. (37 words)
I can’t help but think the crops are breathing a sigh of relief this morning as they soak up the moisture! (22 words)
Example sentences (20)
There are also poems within poems (the song in “Much Ado About Nothing”: “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more”) and poems that abandon their opening gambits and try new strategies.
After the incident, you could almost hear a collective sigh of relief when news outlets reported that the masterpiece was unharmed.
And Sideræl — pronounced 'sigh-deer-ee-el' — is 'a more elven' spelling of sidereal, 'the true time of the universe, star time, deep space time, not our relative earth time,' she explained.
Because I was African American and we tend to have very dense tissue, I was premenopausal, and so on, they said I was fine, and that was a sigh of relief,” said the mother of three.
Beecher coach Tyler Shireman breathed a sigh of relief that Thursday’s injury was not as serious as originally feared.
Britain, Australia and those aspiring for freedom everywhere, breathed a huge sigh of relief.
From that day forward, our beloved Zack Morris Motorola DynaTAC cell phone was illegal (sigh).
Glow Up fans can breathe a sigh of relief as Dominic Skinner and the Ding Dong queen herself Val Garland will be back on the jugding panel as they search for Britain’s “next make-up star”.
He indicated he’s not leaving anytime soon, which likely brought a sigh of relief from his colleagues and viewers.
Her brother responded with a heavy sigh and mentioned how unreal it still felt and that he still thinks that the producers are probably lying to him about everything.
However, fans can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that both of these characters are safe, and they have dedicated their lives to Knowhere.
I can’t help but think the crops are breathing a sigh of relief this morning as they soak up the moisture!
In surgery, Daphne is in Vtech, they bring her back and everyone has a sigh of relief.
It’s when many families breathe a sigh of relief, because they can finally speak with a medical professional and receive clarity on their loved one’s condition.
It was a sigh of relief for Mage’s trainer, Gustavo Delgado Sr., who won three Venezuelan Triple Crowns before coming to the United States in 2014 to set his sights on winning America’s biggest races.
Just when Hawai‘i families breathed a sigh of relief following the pandemic, they were pummeled with rising prices from inflation and supply-chain disruptions.
Lakers fans will most likely be able to breathe a sigh of relief since James came out to be recognized for breaking the NBA’s all-time scoring mark at the end of halftime alongside Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Karl Malone.
Members of the public gallery gave a sigh of relief and clapped as heartless McVey was taken down to start his prison sentence.
Millions of patients and their caregivers breathed a collective sigh of relief when drugmaker Eli Lilly recently announced its new experimental Alzheimer’s medication appears to slow cognitive decline by 35 percent.
Or maybe to emit a long sigh that expresses both melancholy and consent.
Common combinations with sigh
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: