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sighed
verb as in breathe out heavily
Example Sentences
When Samantha told her supervisor what had happened, she said he just sighed and said: “Another one.”
She sighed and admitted she did not know that.
Trump sighed then gave this non-answer: “I just haven’t gotten over something the Justice Department did yesterday, where Virginia cleaned up its voter rolls and got rid of thousands and thousands of bad votes. And the Justice Department sued them, that they should be allowed to put those bad votes, those illegal votes back in and let the people vote. So I haven’t gotten over that. A lot of people have seen that, and they can’t even believe it.”
My aunt sighed and retorted, “Well, some Haitians might eat cats.”
He famously sighed that he and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un sent each other “love letters,” and, even now, years after the bloom faded, still beams, “He likes me.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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