Sighs

Word SIGHS
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /saɪz/

Definitions and meanings of "Sighs"

What do we mean by sighs?

A deep, prolonged audible inhale and exhale of breath; as when fatigued, frustrated, grieved, or relieved; the act of sighing.

Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lament.

A person who is bored.

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The word "sighs" in example sentences

They breath'd in sighs the anguish of their minds, ❋ Unknown (2009)

They speak to us in sighs and whispers only from footnotes and after-thought chapters, mere helpmates to male migrants who are presented as the active shapers of New World experiences. ❋ Unknown (2005)

"Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generation": So wrote Peck, and the relieved sighs from a hundred thousand epigones rustled whole forests. ❋ M-mv (2004)

The bosom heaved in sighs -- a bright smile spread, ❋ Unknown (1853)

Being thus oppressed, they dare not speak for themselves, lest their defence should be made their offence; but they sigh, secretly bemoaning their calamities, and pouring out their souls in sighs before God. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Man has forgotten us; God has forgotten us; only are we remembered by the harpies of justice, who prey upon our distress and coin our sighs and tears into bright shining dollars. ' ❋ Unknown (2010)

"One would think," says Dr. South, "that every letter was written with a tear every word the sound of a breaking heart; that the author was compacted of sorrows, disciplined to grief-one who never breathed but in sighs, nor spoke but in a groan. ❋ Unknown (1865)

The flutter of his breath came forth in short sighs. ❋ Unknown (2003)

My companion could not have slept at all that night; her sighs were audible to me without cessation; so I told her the morning following that, as her husband was in prison, it was her duty to return to her children. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Who sighs more than he smiles, and, I warrant, of the two, his sighs are the more cheerful; who looks at his beautiful wife as if he saw a ghost, and kisses her as if he kissed a corpse! ❋ Egerton Castle (1889)

In responding ( "Talk to the Newsroom") to continuing critical queries about Miller's sensational but incurious reporting on the quest for WMD in Iraq -- relying upon Chalabi and high-up neo-con leakers from within the Administration -- and the checkered coverage of the Plame-Libby legal case, Keller "sighs" and plaintively asks what more could an executive editor have done? ❋ Unknown (2008)

He kind of sighs and goes, Man this f-ing option bullshit, huh? ❋ Unknown (2006)

On a modern piano, when one gets to the second note of the two-note figure, the first note has barely got going; if one plays the second note softer than the first by the necessary amount to make the "sighs," it will be inaudible — so nobody does it. ❋ Bilson, Malcolm (1990)

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