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Example sentences for "long sigh"

  • With the first sight of land many a passenger draws a long sigh of relief.

  • Hartwich drew a long sigh of relief, and dipped the pen in the ink.

  • Staatsraethin, with a long sigh of relief.

  • I will promise never to do so, sir," replied Gretchen with a long sigh of relief.

  • She changed her position and drew a long sigh as though she were very tired, leaned her blond head with its soft disorder back on the pillow, put both her folded hands under her cheek and turned her face toward Dan.

  • Blair called a hansom and told the driver to take him to the Carlton, and leaning back in the vehicle he breathed a long sigh.

  • This over, Clarissa insisted upon having herself robed with great care, and having her room changed in several ways; finally all was arranged to her fancy, and Dinah drew a long sigh of relief.

  • The Professor and Merle instinctively seek each other's gaze, each drawing a long sigh of satisfaction.

  • She looked wan and tired, and walked past him to the place of her entrancement, and, drawing a long sigh as she laid her head back, said "I am going to her tomorrow.

  • And she gave a long sigh, as if some burden she had long borne in patient silence had been loosened a little, if only by the fact of speech about it.

  • And then there was a long sigh, at which Elsmere cold hardly keep his countenance.

  • Then I will,' he said, but with a long sigh.

  • He gave a long sigh of satisfaction as he dropped with a sudden plump upon the spring cushion of an easy-chair on one side of the fireplace.

  • The millionaire covered his face with his hands, and gave a long sigh: but he lifted his head presently, shrugged his shoulders with an impatient gesture, and went slowly up the lighted staircase.

  • He gave a long sigh of relief as he threw the waste scraps of leather upon the top of the low fire, and watched them slowly smoulder away into black ashes.

  • I wish we could hear about those pink and white sticks,” said little Davie patiently, and drawing a long sigh.

  • Phronsie’s eyes widened delightedly, and she gave a long sigh of content.

  • Davie, clasping his hands with a long sigh.

  • Nan drew a long sigh as she went down-hill.

  • Nan drew a long sigh, and went to sit down by her Aunt Helen.

  • Well," said Nan with a long sigh as they watched the smoke from the train drift toward the mountains, "I am glad we can think of them somewhere else than in that lonely little cabin up there.

  • But as she crossed the hall, Miss Sarah drew a long sigh.

  • After which he fell back on the pillow, and pressed his hands to his chest, with a long sigh of anguish.

  • She uttered a long sigh, and concealed her face in her hands.

  • Frances Baudoin heaved a long sigh, and fell almost lifeless into the needlewoman's arms.

  • He sank back into his chair again, and breathed a long sigh.

  • I breathed a long sigh of relief; here, at least, fortune favored us.

  • Then she leaned back in her chair with a long sigh.

  • Not the least in the world, my dear madam," I laughed, and I breathed a long sigh of relief, for I had feared I know not what disaster.

  • He has disappeared, and she ends with an expressive movement of her hands, a long sigh, and a closing of her eyes.

  • CLARE, heaving a long sigh, sinks down into the chair] Tea's nearly ready.

  • He put the violets and jonquils on the tabouret beside the couch, and threw himself down with a long sigh, covering himself with a Roman blanket.

  • When the symphony began Paul sank into one of the rear seats with a long sigh of relief, and lost himself as he had done before the Rico.

  • When he came downstairs Everett found a cart at the door, and Charley Gaylord drew a long sigh of relief as he gathered up the reins and settled back into his own element.

  • He gave a long sigh of joy, and they then chatted almost quietly with an air of intimacy, as though they had known one another twenty years.

  • She gave a long sigh, without replying, and he continued, "It is so painful for a young woman to find herself alone as you will be.

  • Olwen let the paper fall with a long sigh.

  • The girl gave a long sigh as she sank into her usual chair, and felt in a moment the ayah's eager hands busy with the fastenings of her dress.

  • Maud gave a long sigh, charged with the wasted regrets of her vanished youth.

  • Drawing a long sigh, he gathered up the scattered letters and was about to consign them to the flames but in turning to do so, he knocked his arm violently against the back of his chair, dropping them all again at his feet.

  • All the toil and worry of life have perished with that last long sigh, no more work awaits those weary hands, so Honor crosses them reverentially on the still breast.

  • Betty sighed a long sigh of contentment and settled herself closer in his arms.

  • Betty drew a long sigh as her head sank back into the pillow.

  • She drew a long sigh of relief then, and glanced at him, and they both laughed.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long 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:
    high temperatures; least when; long ages; long experience; long flight; long friend; long inscription; long known; long minute; long moment; long peace; long pepper; long siege; long standing; long string; long table; long train; long trip; long visit; longer alone; longer exist; longer existed; longer know; longer thought; longtemps que; photo below