If only it would rain," sighed Don, "what a wonderful amount of good an hour's soaking would do everywhere.
Then she sat down on the top step and sighed heavily.
It was no grovelling, degrading superstition which actuated her: she sighed for powers above her species,--she aspired to hold intercourse with beings of a superior nature.
He saw her unhappy, and he administered comfort; but the source of her misery was in himself, and she sighed to be free?
Mrs. Abercorn sighed eloquently for the lanes of Old England as the mare pranced, and the buggy flew over the various obstructions, bumping and swinging in a reckless manner Ringfield had never seen equalled.
He sighed heavily, then a sudden fire leapt into his eyes.
You make me long for that great feeding," sighed Shag enviously.
I wish I could stampede the Buffalo to save them," sighed Shag; "but my sides are sore from the insulting prods of the Spike Horns.
I wish one would come my way now," he sighed hungrily.
This, then, was the reason why swains from Philadelphia and New York had sighedin vain all that winter.
And Blake sighed profoundly, and straddled the rail a picture of dejection.
The Secretary sighed and looked up drearily from his papers, but rose and shook hands with the young officer who entered, and blandly asked him to be seated.
As long as you are going to use the silks you might as well take the jewels too," sighed Mrs. Butler.
It was small wonder that the four girls sighed from pure content.
I fear I was never built for slow, patient work like this," sighed the financier.
Both motor boat boys sighed their supreme contentment as they dropped into arm-chairs facing each other.
It seems hard to be beaten," sighed Joseph Baldwin.
It's a terrible thing," sighed the Woman, "to have a murderer in our midst and not know who it is.
Saying this, Pyotr Demyanitch sighedwith a careworn air and went out of the kitchen.
I do detest fools," sighed Ignat, clambering on to the stove.
The children sighed for the times when their mother had been with them, and had had such a delightful habit of having that meal served in all sorts of unexpected places, even on days when they could not go for an orthodox picnic.
Miss Bibby sighed despairingly--the strain and the loss of sleep were telling upon her.
When Miss Bibby heard from the children that he had gone away, she sighed deeply.
I'd rather be able to go like a dog, the way Mary can, than make the finest statue of one that ever was done," sighed Dum.
And Cousin Park, knowing herself to be worsted, sighed a great, heaving sigh and looked sadly at the Major's portrait, as though if he had been alive he would have protected her.
Yes, they are something awful," sighed Dee, "I am literally eaten alive.
Well, Miss Peyton is some mobilizer," sighed Dee as she snuggled down in her bed after our first study hall had been lived through at Gresham.
The King joined the latter party as his inclinations were all in the direction of his former station in life and even in the brilliancy of court functions, sighed in secret for the solitude of the temples.
It was pitiable to hear the groans of these pure unsullied doves, who sighed for the deliverance that none could afford them.
And Master Ranty sighed deeply over the degeneracy of the human race in general, and Nilla in particular.
Alec sank back in his chair and closed his eyes as one who recovers from a sharp pang, and sighed deeply.
Even Gyp and Jerry had sighed and begged their mother to help them get up some sort of a play in which they could take part.
Well--I don't know what Jerry will do," sighed Gyp forlornly.
At that the Prince sighed in his heart, for he knew that the bird was dead.
She gazed on him with full affection, and sighed deeply.
So beautiful was it then, that the Emperor himself had come to see it; and gazing enviously at those peaceful walks, and the palace nestling among the trees, had sighed and owned that he too would be glad of such a resting-place.
He sighed to himself, "There was a pain in my crown ever since I wore it.
Gammelyn sighed like a sea-shell; but determining to make the best of a bad business, he set to work.
The Princess wept and sighedfor the dress: "It will be all eaten," said she.
Kate sighed profoundly and said in a rueful tone-- "Heaven knows how much I wish to believe Daisy innocent, but my opinion cannot turn about so quickly as yours.
Cornelius sighed profoundly by way of reply; but even so tender a disappointment could not weigh long on his cheerful temper.
Once or twice she sighed rather deeply, but subduing this she observed with forced cheerfulness-- "Well.
My dear," sighedher friend, "Arthur said so too when we parted.
He watched me with a pleased and attentive smile, and in putting by both glass and plate, he sighed like one much relieved.
He sighed deeply when the hour struck that usually led him to his beloved, opened his cigar-case, and smoked what, if he had used a pipe, might have been termed the calumet of sorrow.
He sighed profoundly, then took up his letter, and went upstairs.
Letters in divorce cases referring to the defendant woman as "a dream in curves" were no joke to the fair one who had sighed over them.
I sighed to think of the trouble in store for Mrs. Jim, not in the least knowing what a remarkable woman she was; in my estimation of her at that time I think I was about as far off the track as I got at any subsequent turn.
I think now he sighed there, but I am not certain.
She sighed deeply, and the sigh was half genuine; this half being for her father, but the other half probably belonged to her instinctive rendering of Juliet Capulet, daughter to a warring house.
She sighed and replaced the broom near a window, letting her glance wander over the small yard outside.
Mrs. Adams sighed again, and laughed a little, making no other response; but Alice persisted.
Lamb nodded, sighed aloud, and crossed the room to a chair.
You look pretty pale," Alice said, andsighed heavily.
Bert sighed deeply, and turned to his motor-bicycle again.
After he had eaten and drunken his fill and sighed and stretched and told them how good the food seemed to him, he lit a cigarette they gave him and led the way, with some doubts and trouble, to the flying-machine amidst the larches.
The secretarysighed at last, leant back in his chair and produced a tooth-pick, and used it, to assist his meditation on Bert's case.
She could even feel herself happier than Barbara, who listened so closely to what Julia said of the settlement house, and sighed as she listened.
Yet the five-months wife sighed unconsciously as she went back to her room.
He brooded, he looked upon her with a heavy eye, he sigheddeeply when she drew his attention to the lovely little Anna.
She was still young--still beautiful-- Anna stirred, sighed in her sleep.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sighed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
