Thesaurus results for SIGHING

sighing

verb

present participle of sigh

as in gasping

to take in and let out a deep audible breath or to make a similar sound Mom always used to sigh loudly whenever she found a mess on the floor—which was often a breeze sighed through the leaves

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Recent Examples of sighing The internet may be full of people who want to outlaw leaf blowers, but misophonic triggers tend to share a bodily quality, an aurally traceable culprit such as a person crunching or sighing. —

Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 8 June 2026 Also, remember that the avatar is reading your body language, eye contact, any kind of sighing or moaning. —

Phil Blair, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 June 2026 Watch On As every streaming platform inevitably becomes like linear TV and offers up more commercials than common sense, we're left sighing at the 360 that society has taken. —

Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 3 June 2026 There are nearly two hundred people standing there, looking around and sighing. —

Literary Hub, 27 May 2026 Everything at this Elmhurst flamepot is punched up, texture and flavor alike, from sighing-soft to tensile to snappy, and always hot-hot-hot. —

Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026 But the people in these plays aren’t sighing and slumping. —

Sara Holdren, Vulture, 23 Mar. 2026 And while many might be reluctant to close the time capsule door on their beloved skinnies, some of us are sighing with relief that the current denim trend is comfy enough for travel. —

Olivia Young, Travel + Leisure, 11 Feb. 2026 But the film belongs to Farmer, Jacobs’ own grandmother, who gives Hettie an unfussy sturdiness of mien and spirit to counter the growing, sighing frailty of her person, and a steady, narrow stare that occasionally seems to see through time. —

Guy Lodge, Variety, 7 Feb. 2026

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The late-night order halts what would have been the nation’s ninth nitrogen execution, a rare reprieve in a state where recent nitrogen deaths involved shaking, gasping and prolonged suffering.

— Kim Chandler, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
Stewart dropped to one knee under an archway of beautiful purple and pink blooms and Karam could be seen gasping in delight when she was presented with an engagement ring, as seen in the snaps.

— Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 9 June 2026