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Example sentences for "deep sigh"

  • It's just as I feared," Stanton resumed, with a deep sigh.

  • But when Van Berg's solo ended, she breathed a deep sigh.

  • Sophia heaved a deep sigh, and answered, "Indeed, Harriet, I pity you from my soul!

  • Mrs Fitzpatrick, after a silence of a few moments, fetching a deep sigh, thus began: "It is natural to the unhappy to feel a secret concern in recollecting those periods of their lives which have been most delightful to them.

  • And when he had recovered sufficiently to sit up, his eyes were fixed confusedly upon those about him; then his hands wandered to his haunches, and he heaved a deep sigh.

  • Lambabus, Jehovabus, cananius," resumed the major, following the effort with a deep sigh.

  • He demanded the cause with the utmost tenderness and apprehension; Cecilia for some time could not speak, and then, with a deep sigh, "Ah!

  • For some minutes he thoughtfully and sorrowfully contemplated her, and then, with a deep sigh, said, "How will the poor rue this day!

  • Charley heaved a deep sigh, and made another desperate attack on a large steak, while the Indians around him made considerable progress in reducing their respective mountains.

  • I can't understand it at all;" and Mr. Kennedy heaved a deep sigh.

  • And he drained the glass to its dregs and set it upside down on the table with a deep sigh of satisfaction and refreshment.

  • Güldmar looked about him, and heaved a deep sigh of refreshment.

  • St. Aubert, with a deep sigh, 'are we then so near Le-Blanc!

  • After a few minutes, she drew a deep sigh, and began to revive.

  • Meanwhile, Christine Daae uttered a deep sigh, which was answered by a groan.

  • And the dancer slammed the door again, with a deep sigh.

  • Erik staggered under this direct attack, kept silent for a moment, dragged himself to a chair and heaved a deep sigh.

  • He heaved a deep sigh, and said, "Mary, Mary, is it thus I must meet thee again?

  • Consul had heaved a deep sigh, and gazed at her from head to foot, he first asked her her name, and how old she was; item, if she knew why she was summoned before them?

  • His voice trembled almost too much for utterance as he finished his sentence, and he strained her to his heart with a deep sigh of thankfulness for her escape.

  • She did not like, though, to seek his confidence, but presently hearing him heave a deep sigh, she rose and went out on the veranda.

  • Elsie colored with pleasure, then calling to mind the time when he had for a moment suspected her of falsehood, she heaved a deep sigh, dropping her head upon his breast.

  • He crossed himself with an accustomed movement, bent till he touched the ground with his hand, and bowed his white head with a deep sigh.

  • During one of these pauses Kutuzov heaved a deep sigh as if preparing to speak.

  • Mr Knag once more, heaving a deep sigh as he restored to its parent shelf the book he had been reading.

  • With a deep sigh, Arthur Gride slowly filled it--though not to the brim--and then filled his own.

  • Then Per Olsen is set free," said Lasse, heaving a deep sigh.

  • Long Ole was at the next group, and now he came on to them and was going to hold out his tracts, when a glance at Lasse made him drop both hand and eyes; and with a deep sigh he passed on with bowed head to the next group.

  • The man started at Pelle's shadow, and heaved a deep sigh.

  • I was startled in the midst of my devotions, however, by a deep sigh; I turned suddenly round, and just behind me was a female.

  • I dare hardly hope it," said the Earl, with a deep sigh.

  • Ah sir," answered the messenger, with a deep sigh, "thae days hae lang gane by.

  • Mike, draining the pot to its last few drops, which he poured pathetically upon the grass before him; and then having emptied the ashes from his pipe, he heaved a deep sigh, as though to say life had no pleasures in store for him.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "deep sigh" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    been given; deep blue; deep breath; deep dish; deep distress; deep green; deep growl; deep hole; deep impression; deep plowing; deep ravine; deep reflection; deep reverie; deep river; deep sigh; deep waters; deep yellow; deeply affected; deeply interesting; deeply moved; essential parts; great river; great stir; silver spoon; something else; speaking slowly