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sigh

verb as in long for

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During royal scandals, "you breathe a sigh of relief as you guys - the media - go crackers over something else," a former No 10 official told me.

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Most of the time, I find one that does the job handily, but on a recent trip, I sighed with happiness when my head hit my chosen pillow.

At times he sighed and looked up at the ceiling, appearing pained.

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With control of the number back in Del Orbe’s hands, advocates of problem gambling prevention in New Mexico are breathing a sigh of relief.

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“The babies’ breathing,” he writes, “was impetuous, nervous, uneven, but the mothers’ slow worldly sighs, forceful and vaguely wise, got to me, straight to the heart.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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