Sighing

//ˈsaɪ̯.ɪŋ//

"Sighing" in a Sentence (11 examples)

Tom kept sighing.

Then the ghost spoke again, and his voice sounded like the sighing of the wind.

A thousand years from now man will still be sighing, “Oh! Life is so hard!” and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.

Her godmother, who was a fairy, said to her, "You wish you could go to the ball; is it not so?" "Alas, yes," said Cinderella, sighing.

Mary's sighing.

Sighing he sees him, chariot, arms and all, / and Priam, spreading helpless hands in vain.

Sighing, he replies "'Tis here, / the final end of all the Dardan power, / the last, sad day has come, the inevitable hour. / Troy was, and we were Trojans, now, alas! / no more, for perished is the Dardan fame. / Fierce Jove to Argos biddeth all to pass, / and Danaans rule a city wrapt in flame."

He kept sighing.

Sighing deeply, he grabbed hold of the door handle.

"Mine is a long and a sad tale!" said the Mouse, turning to Alice, and sighing. "It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse's tail; "but why do you call it sad?"

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the groanings and sighings of the dying man

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