Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Present participle of
sigh .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word sighing.
Examples
-
Then he went in sighing, and pondered what had come to pass with him and was perplexed about his case, and his affair became yet more obscure to him when he saw his turband and bag-trousers and when, feeling the pocket, he found the purse containing the thousand gold pieces.
-
Where my immediate reaction was to feel my skin sighing in relief.
and, home suricattus 2005
-
pluck forbidden fruit, with mother Eve,/For puberty in sighing florets pant,/Or point the prostitution of
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006
-
Perhaps his sighing was an indication of sadness about her lack of academic success.
Their Dogs Came With Them Helena María Viramontes 2007
-
From the description of the peculiarity in their mode of utterance, which the journal of the voyage calls sighing, and from the circumstance that the same people were found in the bay of St. Blas, 60 leagues beyond the Cape, there can be no doubt that they were Hottentots.
-
The state of being in love has many physiological accompaniments, such as sighing like a furnace. 84
The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006
-
But Gore was too histrionic in the first (the "sighing" debate), too gentle and drugged-seeming in the second, and too late in finding the proper calmly aggressive tone in the third.
-
But Gore was too histrionic in the first (the "sighing" debate), too gentle and drugged-seeming in the second, and too late in finding the proper calmly aggressive tone in the third.
-
There was a kind of sighing or singing in his ears, and he seemed to be floating in some fourth dimension as he approached the entrance to that somber, still world known only to him.
-
A great pine tree stands near the block of granite that marks the Nairne graves and a gentle breeze through its countless needles caused that mysterious sighing which is perhaps nature's softest and saddest note.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.