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
Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
From that day forward, everyone sighed and said what a year.
—Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
Mac Cerullo, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
Thanks to Greg Walsh’s heroics, the Wolverines were able to take a sigh of relief.
—Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
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Verb
The Renaissance master, whose name is only ever sighed in the same breath as Leonardo and Michelangelo, supposedly traded truth for beauty, and ended up destroying both.
—Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
From that day forward, everyone sighed and said what a year.
—Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
Did Saturday’s outing feel like a sigh of relief?
—Mac Cerullo, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
Thanks to Greg Walsh’s heroics, the Wolverines were able to take a sigh of relief.
—Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 25 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sigh
Verb
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Barker gasped in recognition and delight.—
Alex Barasch,
New Yorker,
11 May 2026
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Symptoms of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, resemble a cold, with a cough that usually worsens over weeks and can cause gasping, vomiting and difficulty breathing, the Pasadena Public Health Department said in a statement announcing the outbreak.—
Fedor Zarkhin,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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In a world where most conversations take the form of cautious whispers, information degrades quickly.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
13 May 2026
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With a whisper of mineral notes, Ford’s was a bracingly hefty gin with impressive structure.—
Sam Stone,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
12 May 2026
Verb
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Meanwhile, Spurs, under their third manager of the season, were huffing and puffing in their attempts to blow Wolves’ defence down.—
Matt Slater,
New York Times,
26 Apr. 2026
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Washington’s Copium But the White House is huffing its own brand of copium.—
Newsweek Editors,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The famous voice occasionally softens into a murmur.—
Mike Bianchi,
The Orlando Sentinel,
6 May 2026
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The room filled with soft murmurs.—
Elise Taylor,
Vanity Fair,
30 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Supporters hoped the project, which initially included a hotel, public park space, a riverwalk and hundreds of new apartments would breathe new life into Connecticut’s largest city.—
P.R. Lockhart,
Hartford Courant,
9 May 2026
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An 11-pound girl in Alabama stopped breathing for 20 seconds at a time.—
Duaa Eldeib,
CNN Money,
8 May 2026
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.—
Joshua Minsoo Kim,
Pitchfork,
28 Apr. 2026
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Her stomach made an audible gurgle.—
Douglas Stuart,
New Yorker,
12 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Police allegedly found 641 glassine bags, including one that was tested and was found to be heroin/fentanyl, 1.78 grams of cocaine, 0.52g of crack cocaine, nine Adderall capsules, plastic and glass straws commonly used to snort narcotics and $232, according to Cleverdon.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
14 Apr. 2026
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Skaggs, 27, snorted the pill and died in a Texas hotel room on July 1, 2019, choking on his own vomit.—
Steve Henson,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Apr. 2026
Noun
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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.—
Matthew Razak,
Space.com,
23 Mar. 2026
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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.—
Sarah Kuta,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Feb. 2026
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“Sigh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sigh. Accessed 15 May. 2026.
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