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
Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
This was a small decline of 10,000 on the prior week but in British ratings terms is effectively a plateau and will likely lead to a sigh of relief among the SNL UK creative team and executives at Sky.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 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
The historian Cassius Dio heaved a sigh of relief that those women who entered the arena under Titus were not from the elite.
—Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
This was a small decline of 10,000 on the prior week but in British ratings terms is effectively a plateau and will likely lead to a sigh of relief among the SNL UK creative team and executives at Sky.
—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sigh
Verb
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Natural Wonders the Whole Family Will Love Mount Rainier National Park in Washington is the kind of place that makes kids gasp.—
Lauren Schuster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
22 Apr. 2026
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Within a few weeks of starting the treatments, O’Neal was walking without gasping and talking without pausing to gobble air.—
Courtney Crowder,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Of course, this being DC and the WHCD, there are always whispers and smoke.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
25 Apr. 2026
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In Islamabad, the almost indecipherable whisper of leaks has turned to crickets.—
Nic Robertson,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2026
Verb
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Isaac Hayden huffed and puffed but received little support from Blackpool’s Karoy Anderson.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
31 Mar. 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 room filled with soft murmurs.—
Elise Taylor,
Vanity Fair,
30 Apr. 2026
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One thing that sets him apart from a contemporary such as Pieter de Hooch, to whom he is instinctively likened, is a murmur that the stillness may not hold.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
Verb
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For people who struggle with breathing during sleep, the pillow can serve as a positional aid.—
Samantha Agate,
Charlotte Observer,
1 May 2026
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Second, the new Netflix gamble on a more substantial IMAX release, with a longer theatrical window, gives it more time to breathe in February.—
Marcus Jones,
IndieWire,
1 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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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
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The plucky kid who seemingly had a fast-track job and a beyond-dreams wife is now desperately snorting it all away.—
Duane Byrge,
HollywoodReporter,
1 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 2 May. 2026.
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