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
Oliver Kay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
The audience sighed in relief and immediately got up to leave.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 20 Sep. 2025
Jordy Fee-Platt, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2025
Those were moments where that felt like a really big sigh; like a huge breath out.
—Josh Wigler, HollywoodReporter, 30 Nov. 2025
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Verb
Worthington sighs at the suggestion.
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While the Miami Hurricanes are breathing a collective sigh of relief, the BYU Cougars are furious at their exclusion from the 12-team College Football Playoff field.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for sigh
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Those in the audience were heard clapping, cheering and even gasping during the performance.—
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Upon announcing her status as a Faithful, the whole room gasps.—
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Every offseason, the whispers of PGA Tour stars defecting to LIV Golf swirl like clockwork.—
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This could trigger everything from whispers and misunderstandings to grudges that resurface in the group chat.—
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His longest breath hold without huffing O₂ is, unofficially, 10:17, which would place him fourth behind Serbian diver Branko Petrovic’s current world record of 11:54.—
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Cole Burston / Getty Images The Athletic has live coverage of Dodgers vs. Blue Jays in Game 3 of the World Series. TORONTO — Max Scherzer gritted his teeth and huffed.—
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Outside, the marinas become villages — food stalls, shaded lounges, the steady murmur of deals being courted.—
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All of the murmurs point toward that.—
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This air filter allows your engine to breathe.—
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Hot Spell Milwaukee Hot Spell specializes in hot and cold contrast—relax into the wood fire heat, then breathe deeply through an ice-cold plunge into Lake Michigan.—
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Other episodes of the series will follow a bodybuilder obsessed with having a bulky physique, a woman who blends and snorts all her food, individuals addicted to eating grass, makeup and cardboard, and even a veteran with PTSD who filled his home with more than a hundred snakes.—
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The sow bounced forward a couple of times, snorting.—
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Now the babble about them is back.—
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Mesopotamian corpses, stirred by the babble of trade, wander the halls wrapped in shrouds of extravagant malice.—
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Several reports over the last few weeks had the Broncos sniffing around at offensive additions, primarily at wide receiver.—
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The Ovechkin puck would likely garner a pretty penny, if not now, then sometime in the future, as no other active NHL player is sniffing around 700 career goals.—
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“Sigh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sigh. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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