heave a sigh of relief

Example Sentences

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It is too early yet to heave a sigh of relief.

From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2017

But when he suddenly stops taking her calls several weeks later, she doesn’t do what you’d expect, which is heave a sigh of relief that she’s no longer dating a guy named Holt.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 3, 2017

Will we heave a sigh of relief, or shriek in horror?

From Seattle Times • Nov. 6, 2016

The bureaucrats will heave a sigh of relief and go back to doing what they've long thought a "normal" Army, Air Force, and Navy should be doing.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2011

I heave a sigh of relief sometimes at the thought that I, at any rate, found a husband before the present man-famine began. 

From The Hand of Ethelberta by Hardy, Thomas