sigh
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“Oh, yes, the boring religious one,” a friend said with something of a sigh, asked if she had any better recollection than I about Mary Bennet, the middle child in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
Stafford bravely let our first newspaper prototype go, and there was a collective sigh of relief and joyous exclamation when our kite flew.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
“A day off,” he said with a sigh “will help.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
One admitted, with a sigh: "We all sit there every night to see what the next tweet is".
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
Lloyd fetched up a sigh with a sob in it.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Vocabulary lists containing sigh
"The Road Not Taken"
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"We Wear the Mask" by Paul Laurence Dunbar
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"The House on Mango Street" and "The Road Not Taken"
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