as in to gasp
to take in and let out a deep audible breath or to make a similar sound
Mom always used to sigh loudly whenever she found a mess on the floor—which was often a breeze sighed through the leaves
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Recent Examples of sigh
Phil Blair,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 June 2026
Watch On As every streaming platform inevitably becomes like linear TV and offers up more commercials than common sense, we're left sighing at the 360 that society has taken.
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Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
3 June 2026
Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
When so much of motherhood is carefully curated and aspirationally filtered online, the responses on garden-mom videos can read like the commenters are experiencing a collective sigh of relief.
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Sarah Levy,
The Atlantic,
17 June 2026
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Verb
Also, remember that the avatar is reading your body language, eye contact, any kind of sighing or moaning.
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Phil Blair,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 June 2026
Watch On As every streaming platform inevitably becomes like linear TV and offers up more commercials than common sense, we're left sighing at the 360 that society has taken.
—
Sergio Pereira,
Space.com,
3 June 2026
Noun
In every pause to catch my breath, in every sigh or shift or hesitation.
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Literary Hub,
17 June 2026
When so much of motherhood is carefully curated and aspirationally filtered online, the responses on garden-mom videos can read like the commenters are experiencing a collective sigh of relief.
—
Sarah Levy,
The Atlantic,
17 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sigh
Verb
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Sometimes poetry leaves the cinema behind, gasping for breath.
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Zendaya was visibly shocked at first, gasping and clasping her hands over her face, but got into the performance, laughing and dancing along as Holland came over to dance on her.
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Theories, speculation and whispers were hard to ignore, but even harder to prove.
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The whispers about the 41-year-old turned louder.
Verb
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Lee began huffing gasoline at seven years old, court documents stated.
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The father was allegedly trying to stop the 17-year-old from huffing butane, according to the post.
Noun
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In the first few minutes, the jeers were murmurs that faded into the overall atmosphere in the stands.
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The crowd of supporters didn't cheer, exactly – rather, a murmur ran through the crowd.
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The Padres deserve a ton of credit for breathing life into what now is a feisty rivalry with the Dodgers.
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If emotions swell, step back for ten minutes, breathe with music, then return to your art with a clearer, kinder tone.
Noun
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There are mud pools from Yellowstone National Park that have a squeamish gurgle, and hearing them amid a crackling bonfire feels unexpectedly harmonious, even plausible.
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Her stomach made an audible gurgle.
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There's a laugh-until-you-snort scene in which Harry gets an alien bug inside of him.
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The premiere audience gasped and snorted in disbelief as Stan and Reinsve suffer the indignity of an overreaching state — removing teens, tweens and an infant from their loving care.
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The film almost completely drops any and all scientific babble from the book in favor of character development, action sequences, and emotional gut punches.
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Read a book and sip tea in front of the central fireplace, swim between the indoor and outdoor sections of the glimmering pool, and soak your aching quads in the hot tubs under the evergreens and aspens while listening to the peaceful babble of Gore Creek.
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“Sigh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sigh. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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