Get to know Sighed better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Sighed meaning
simple past and past participle of sigh
Using Sighed
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of sigh
- In the example corpus, sighed often appears in combinations such as: and sighed, sighed and, he sighed.
Context around Sighed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 18.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sighed
- In this selection, "sighed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 18.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, kern, eamonn, boy, deeply, repeatedly and charlie stand out and add context to how "sighed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and he sighed deeply and and as she sighed repeatedly. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sighed" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sighed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But in the end, I just sighed. (7 words)
He stared at the house and sighed. (7 words)
She sighed and looked off to the side. (8 words)
Meanwhile, at the People for American Way reception and debate watch party at the Wharf in Washington, D.C., attendees sighed and expressed anger at their television sets as Trump told lie after lie. (34 words)
Kern sighed, “The seventh rule in creating a Communist State is to take away God so that faint hearted and weak-minded people will depend on the government for their reasoning and values. (33 words)
The score was now team, bracing for a photo finish, sighed in relief when Spielberg’s friend Harrison Ford walked out to present Best Picture: The reunion seemed tailor-made for television. (32 words)
Ever glanced at your garden and sighed at the sight of weeds sprawling across your neatly plotted vegetables and flowers? (20 words)
Example sentences (20)
Asked which new restaurants will be landmarks tomorrow, he sighed, “They don’t last the way they did in the past.
In a brief excerpt of her interrogation released by the Russian authorities, Darya Trepova appeared under duress as she sighed repeatedly.
Kern sighed, “The seventh rule in creating a Communist State is to take away God so that faint hearted and weak-minded people will depend on the government for their reasoning and values.
She then joked how she would still be "working when she was 100", to which Eamonn sighed and agreed.
The boy sighed and wiped snow from his face.
The man looked up from his papers then, and he frowned, and he sighed deeply, and he rubbed the bridge of his nose.
There’s an expiration date on cosmetics,” she sighed.
The score was now team, bracing for a photo finish, sighed in relief when Spielberg’s friend Harrison Ford walked out to present Best Picture: The reunion seemed tailor-made for television.
They’re not bothered,” sighed Charlie Callow, 59, who was visiting with his wife and their two kids from Northampton, England.
Ever glanced at your garden and sighed at the sight of weeds sprawling across your neatly plotted vegetables and flowers?
Meanwhile, at the People for American Way reception and debate watch party at the Wharf in Washington, D.C., attendees sighed and expressed anger at their television sets as Trump told lie after lie.
After getting the GST department notice I learnt that someone has formed a fake company in my name thereby using my personal documents,” the poor pipefitter sighed.
But in the end, I just sighed.
He sighed and turned to find that his customer had gone, and so had the Duke of Wellington.
He stared at the house and sighed.
Mahoney, a once-rugged outdoorsman now reduced to bones, his belly swollen with incurable cancer, sighed with relief.
She sighed and looked off to the side.
The Calgary man put his face in his hands, smiled and sighed deeply as Justice Suzanne Bensler acquitted him on Wednesday.
And the lyrics — proudly belted, then joyfully sighed — tell of the restoration and clarity to be found en plein-air.
I sighed with relief, set for the final stretch home.
Common combinations with sighed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and sighed 7×
- sighed and 5×
- he sighed 4×
- she sighed 4×
- sighed in 3×
- sighed with 3×
- sighed deeply 2×
- just sighed 2×