Explore Sighs through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Sighs meaning
plural of sigh
Using Sighs
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of sigh
- In the example corpus, sighs often appears in combinations such as: sighs and, sighs of, and sighs.
Context around Sighs
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 7 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Sighs
- In this selection, "sighs" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 21.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, group, stressful, dog, exasperatedly and short stand out and add context to how "sighs" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include age group sighs with a and and longsuffering sighs. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "sighs" sits close to words such as abominable, abstracts and aceh, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with sighs
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exchanged. (6 words)
And a man just before her,” Hayam sighs. (8 words)
My message always seemed to be met with extended sighs. (10 words)
But asking other Iowa Democrats to defend the caucuses this week led to a series of deep sighs and requests to speak off the record, before many privately acknowledged that the process was indefensible as a matter of democracy. (39 words)
But by the end of the test, when Alice sighs with disappointment and says: “I wonder if I’ll ever eat a mince pie ever again,” I feel like I have successfully lured her to the dark side. (38 words)
After the transfer tug-of-war between PSG and Barcelona last summer, when agitated for a move, the sighs of relief were practically audible outside the Parc des Princes. (29 words)
One couple sits down, sighs, and looks at each other, as if to say: are you ready? (17 words)
Example sentences (20)
This kind of wave can be an Eeyore greeting from the Winnie the Pooh series, in which he sighs and shares a burden with a deflated wave.
James Joyce is her favorite author—she sighs when photographer James brings her to look at the Cliffs of Moher (which, truly, do look pretty magnificent here).
Like every guy in my age group sighs with a wistful smile when remembering playing Goldeneye 64 all night surrounded by friends and pizza boxes.
No more stressful sighs when you realize you forgot to take the meat out in the morning.
The dog sighs after its departing owner, turns around twice, and settles contentedly down on the sidewalk, perfectly blocking the letters I don’t need.
Their sighs about the number of civilian deaths are hypocritical and empty.
We exchange a look as Mr. Williams sighs exasperatedly, his baton and eyebrows raised the same.
After the transfer tug-of-war between PSG and Barcelona last summer, when agitated for a move, the sighs of relief were practically audible outside the Parc des Princes.
And a man just before her,” Hayam sighs.
Dr Jacob Simmonds sighs as he reads a card sent from a patient to mark the ten-year anniversary of her heart transplant.
My message always seemed to be met with extended sighs.
Several minutes later, having emerged and grabbed a fresh bag of fruit snacks, Yang sits back down and sighs.
Sighs, short and infrequent, were exchanged.
The sound can be interpreted in two ways: sighs that “the world stopped,” or, the likelier option, new breaths taken as BTS embraces “Be”-ing in this new reality.
This life is a real of illness, pain, and sighs.
As leaders’ familiar with each other come back to continue the business in the highest offices of their respective countries, many quarters are heaving sighs of relief.
But asking other Iowa Democrats to defend the caucuses this week led to a series of deep sighs and requests to speak off the record, before many privately acknowledged that the process was indefensible as a matter of democracy.
But by the end of the test, when Alice sighs with disappointment and says: “I wonder if I’ll ever eat a mince pie ever again,” I feel like I have successfully lured her to the dark side.
But we managed to get everyone in the car with only a few eye rolls and longsuffering sighs.
One couple sits down, sighs, and looks at each other, as if to say: are you ready?
Common combinations with sighs
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- sighs and 9×
- sighs of 8×
- and sighs 6×
- he sighs 2×
- sighs when 2×
- sighs with 2×
- the sighs 2×
- were sighs 2×
- sighs the 2×