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Example sentences for "heavy sigh"

  • Slowly, as if closed by some stranger's hand, his eyelids drooped, and with a heavy sigh he sank back upon the pillows.

  • These words she uttered with a heavy sigh, and in a tone at once resentful and complaining.

  • The youth heaved a heavy sigh, and muttered-- "Would it were so.

  • The naughty days are much more like to see the last of me," said the child, half aloud, and with a heavy sigh.

  • A heavy sigh seemed to concur with what he said.

  • And then, I drank too much wine--" She gave a heavy sigh, and turned away to hide her look.

  • And, with a heavy sigh, he did nothing but retire into the hotel.

  • A distracted squeeze, a heavy sigh, and soon after sounds from the young man's motor-cycle called up visions of flying dust and broken bones.

  • He received me after his usual fashion, which was to look me up and down, smile in a way that was quite his own, and then, with a heavy sigh, return to his reading as if it were a matter of pain to him to have anything at all to do with me.

  • He opens the door to go out, then stands again irresolute in the darkness and heaves a heavy sigh.

  • She gave a heavy sigh to his memory, as she was accustomed to do, whenever she spoke of him in company; and went on adjusting her nightdress.

  • Mr. Dribble ended by observing, with a heavy sigh, "that times were sadly changed since those days.

  • She paused in her singing; a heavy sigh, almost a sob followed.

  • At last, with a heavy sigh, he opened his eyes.

  • He walked to the window, but even the sunlight seemed to mock him--there was no light for him, no rift in the cloud darkening his path, and with a heavy sigh he turned away.

  • A heavy sigh from Mr. Britton broke the silence.

  • Beecher heaved a heavy sigh; in that unhappy delay was comprised all the story of his calamities.

  • Hankes heaved a heavy sigh; it was, he felt, the safest thing he could do, for he did not dare to trust himself with a single word.

  • He heaved a heavy sigh as he muttered a sort of thanksgiving that it was all ended at last,--all over!

  • I see," he said, dropping her hands and turning away with a heavy sigh.

  • The dog-cart was well out of sight before she turned, with a heavy sigh, preparing herself to walk back to the house.

  • Turning away, he sat down with a heavy sigh in the faded chair again.

  • Mr Meagles, with a heavy sigh, 'I wish to God you had never had to hear it.

  • With a heavy sigh and a despondent air, Arthur Clennam slowly rose.

  • Henry, at length, with a heavy sigh, "I am glad the story has ended thus.

  • Without a word, but scarcely able to suppress a heavy sigh, Kenneth at once began preparations to obey the unexpected call.

  • A heavy sigh, which she tried vainly to repress, burst from her lips.

  • She raised her head with a heavy sigh, and opened her eyes once more on the mean and miserable little room.

  • She lay down on her bed with a heavy sigh, and tried to sleep.

  • With a heavy sigh, the cold and secret woman folded the letter up again and addressed herself to the interests and the duties of the passing time.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bring himself; but such; for they were not; great sensation; heavy body; heavy fall; heavy fine; heavy growth; heavy hand; heavy losses; heavy ordnance; heavy press; heavy sigh; heavy stone; heavy swell; heavy weather; heavy weight; increasing the; its nature; judicial procedure; lady will; like most; little people; restrain himself; special train; though the