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• n  an utterance made by exhaling audibly
• n  a sound like a person sighing
  she heard the sigh of the wind in the trees
• v  heave or utter a sigh; breathe deeply and heavily
  She sighed sadly
• v  utter with a sigh

• He stirred his magically around with a finger, taking a long sigh in and a long sigh out.
• A collective sigh of disappointment could be heard in bars and homes around Uganda seconds after Maureen Namatovu, the Ugandan contestant on the reality-TV program Big Brother .
• You could almost hear the collective generational sigh of relief in 1970 when Blume published this groundbreaking, taboo-trampling young adult novel: finally, a book that talks .

• suspiration
• suspire

News & Articles

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• A 3-Year-Old Swimming 50 Meters Twice? Just a "Life Skill" With Video
  PHOENIX, Arizona, June 17. WATCHING a 3-year-old jump into a pool and splash around the water is nothing new. But to see a child of that age swimming the length of a 50-meter pool twice is a rare sigh...
  June 17, 2013 - Swimming World Magazine
• Three NSA whistleblowers give candid interview: 'We told you so'
  When a National Security Agency contractor revealed top-secret details this month on the government's collection of Americans' phone and Internet records, one select group of intelligence veterans breathed a sigh of relief.
  June 17, 2013 - The Clarion-Ledger
• Boil-water alert ends for all of south Broward | Photos
  Residents across southern Broward County are breathing a sigh of relief following Saturday's announcement that a boil-water alert was finally lifted.        
  June 16, 2013 - Sun-Sentinel

Quotes

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• Mohamed ElBaradei in Guardian Unlimited
  Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency, called the report a "sigh of relief" Wednesday because its conclusions also jibe with the agency's own findings.
• Michael Steele in BusinessWeek
  On Wednesday, Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele said Americans were breathing "a sigh of relief" over the potential derailing of the health care bill. "People across the country are saying, 'Slow it down,' Steele said Wednesday."
• Tom Glavine in SportingNews.com
  I anticipate a sigh of relief,Glavine said.