Sighed

Gavin sighed, stretching tired muscles as he got up from his chair. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Paladin sighed the sigh of the long suffering and pondered whether to answer back. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And Robin sighed, "You have got to get that idea out of your head, Dad." ❋ Buymeaclue (2008)

The pirate captain sighed and pushed off from his broad velcro-laced sofa to recover the spent container. “And he wants me, ” McCarran said, mid-flight. “No, he does not, ” replied the eunuch. “Oh, ” said the pirate. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Here he abode a first day and a second and a third, but the maidens came not; whereat he was sore troubled and wept and sighed from a heart hard tried; and he ceased not weeping and wailing till he fainted away. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Her name sighed out of him as he gathered her into his embrace, raining kisses over her face, returning to her mouth over and over. ❋ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Rebecca York, Robin D. Owens (2005)

Mrs. Peterkin sighed, and decided she would order a simple breakfast. ❋ Lucretia Peabody (1886)

Mr Vincent did not know the intimacy that had subsisted between her ladyship and Miss Portman – she sighed from the recollection of Clarence Hervey, and of all that had passed at the masquerade. ❋ Unknown (1801)

He hung his head a moment, and sighed from the bottom of his heart; but the resignation which he summoned upon every sorrow was never deaf to his call, and when he had secretly ejaculated a short and silent prayer for fortitude to his beloved wife, he turned calmly to the doctor, and began conversing upon other affairs. ❋ Unknown (1796)

The Captain sighed. “You are a good technician and a gifted cosmonaut, Bai. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The stag sighed and the forest stirred with his breath. ❋ De Lint, Charles, 1951- (1990)

Tang just kind of sighed, and pushed into my face, then relaxed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Where he asked her some weird inappropriate question, and she kind of sighed and said, "I never know what to do about men that are obsessed with me," and then she pinched his cheek? ❋ Unknown (2009)

When Wiesel received a letter from a Nobel Prize laureate documenting Israel's contributions to the atrocities in Guatemala, suggesting that he use his considerable influence to put a stop to Israel's practice of arming neo-Nazis, Wiesel "sighed" and admitted to Karni that he did not reply to that particular letter. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The Buick took me as far as downtown Nashville and then belched smoke and kind of sighed like an old horse and laid down and died. ❋ Nelson, Willie & Shrake, Edwin Bud (1992)

Two-note patterns should be "sighed" only when the music really demands sighing. ❋ Brendel, Alfred (1985)

We read how he "rejoiced in spirit" (Luke 10: 21) -- how he "sighed" (Mark 7: 34) and "sighed deeply" (Mark 8: 12) -- how his look showed "anger" (Mark 3: 5). ❋ T. R. Glover (N/A)

Pa he kind of sighed and said 'Amen' sort of snappish, and he got up and told Ma he didn't feel well, and she would have to take his place and pass around the sassidge and potatoes, and he looked kind of scart and went out with his hand on his pistol pocket, as though he would like to shoot, and ❋ Unknown (1878)

He recounted all the places he went and I just "sighed". ❋ Unknown (2010)