(v. i.) To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like.
(v. i.) Hence, to lament; to grieve.
(v. i.) To make a sound like sighing.
(v. t.) To exhale (the breath) in sighs.
(v. t.) To utter sighs over; to lament or mourn over.
(v. t.) To express by sighs; to utter in or with sighs.
(v. i.) A deep and prolonged audible inspiration or respiration of air, as when fatigued or grieved; the act of sighing.
(v. i.) Figuratively, a manifestation of grief; a lan/ent.
Example Sentences:
(1) "But this is not all Bulgarians and gives a totally wrong picture of what the country is about," she sighed.
(2) Whoever is Tory leader then may breathe a sigh of relief.
(3) Sighs provide an opportunity to study the interaction and the maturation of the autonomic nervous system.
(4) An adviser to the Sultan of Aïr, the town’s ceremonial leader , sighs.
(5) To all the college grads out there, sighing over their student loan payments, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has a message: it was all worth it.
(6) | Hugh Muir Read more Wherever Labour people gather to discuss how to break out of the vice tightening around the party, answers fail amid sighs of utter despair.
(7) However, the over-riding view is that with Global's plan to buy GMG Radio outright all but thwarted, senior executives at German-owned Bauer will be breathing a sigh of relief.
(8) "I wanna rearrange that bit," he sighs, "because I feel I'm just doing what's expected of an R&B artist to take your shirt off.
(9) I think it should be a huge sigh of relief for EADS shareholders."
(10) "It's hard," sighed Royal, asked how she was faring.
(11) As for Botha, he breathed a sigh of relief that his ordeal was over.
(12) "Some even call me her pet," he sighs, raising his eyebrows in exasperation.
(13) He sighs, though whether this is out of weariness and regret, or impatience at my line of questioning, is difficult to tell.
(14) "Oh Lynn," she sighs, "you can't seriously expect me to answer that."
(15) Thus, promoter switching during the early stationary phase resulted not only in expression from SigH promoters but also in differential expression of the genes in the sigA operon.
(16) Jason Conibear, market analyst at forex specialists, Cambridge Mercantile, argues that Obama will be breathing a sigh of relief, even though US economic growth is slowing: American consumers are getting skittish again, but with the giant economy's output still creeping upwards, politicians and policymakers will find the perfect excuse to do nothing.
(17) Because this is due in part to variability in the way the information is obtained to make the various rating distinctions, the Structured Interview Guide for the HDRS (SIGH-D) was developed to standardize the manner of administration of the scale.
(18) Rumours,” Baddour sighed once more, as he returned from the platform.
(19) Clash of the sofas: BBC v ITV An age-old rivalry with plenty of previous, gone are the days where you'd sigh when you found out a match was on ITV not BBC.
(20) – but Russell happily slips in and out of voices and lines from the movie, his recollections punctuated by wistful sighs.
Whine
Definition:
(v. i.) To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, nasal tone; hence, to complain or to beg in a mean, unmanly way; to moan basely.
(v. t.) To utter or express plaintively, or in a mean, unmanly way; as, to whine out an excuse.
(n.) A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
Example Sentences:
(1) It’s great that the new Star Wars film is more diverse , with John Boyega and Daisy Ridley in significant roles; I am pleased to see everyone on #BoycottStarWarsVII gnash and whine uselessly.
(2) You can whine about the politics of this until you are green, white and orange in the face but if you want to learn Irish – and many people do – your best bet is to organise your own classes.
(3) Green Day love it The American rock band Green Day are proud champions of Salinger's antihero; their 1994 song Basket Case is a nasally homage in nasally whines.
(4) I whine that I haven’t been able to successfully place an order, let alone indicate how i’d like my steak done.
(5) So that rightwing free market ideologues can open up all those markets that the US have been whining to the World Trade Organisation about for decades; for some ideological principal that says people should pay less tax and privately fund only the services they need and want, and screw the collective community if they cannot afford to pay their insurance; that puts money in the pockets of the very richest in society, while the very poorest will be expected to step up or die out; that any public provision will not be on the basis of the most needy, but on the basis of who those in control consider to be the most deserving.
(6) On 16 November I find another writerly whine: "I feel sucked hollow."
(7) "Can you explain to the Whining Yanks that they didn't have a goal disallowed in the match against Slovenia, since the referee clearly blew for what he perceived to be a foul before the ball had reached Edu and ended up in the back of the net," lectures Matt.
(8) Whining about cab drivers transcends national boundaries.
(9) When you carry on moping, and whining like Charlie Brown after listening to the whole Smiths catalog at every single club you've played, it's hard to believe Tristelme was ever destined for true greatness.
(10) He would be watching the dogfights, planes diving and looping, their engines whining, each hurling fire at the other.
(11) Effects of diazepam were examined on the whine reaction elicited by LH stimulation and on unit activities in the LH and Abm in cats.
(12) The whole show is really just a riff on that well-meaning girl in 1980s Grange Hill whining, "Why do you eat so many sandwiches, Ro-land?"
(13) We know we'll get into trouble for it and we're certainly not whining about that."
(14) And in the absence of a firm rebuttal, all you can do, as Kerry did and Romney is now doing, is whine.
(15) This Fourth of July weekend, we Americans did what we're known for: we grilled meats, whined about air travel, and looked back in fondness at our Founding Fathers who refused to pay their taxes.
(16) Their president-elect whining about someone being mean about his restaurant, or gloating over The Apprentice’s ratings dip under Arnold Schwarzenegger.
(17) As for its leadership, the current choice of new brooms includes a prince from a non-democracy, a South Korean billionaire and Fifa insider who nodded Blatterism through for the best part of two decades before deciding opportunely to speak out (and is now whining about being taken out by the “hitman” that is Blatter’s ethics committee), and Michel Platini , whose reputation appears to have a half-life shorter than most highly radioactive isotopes.
(18) As the new Zimbabwe effectively became a one-party state under the gifted but autocratic Mugabe, as terrible droughts undermined the economy and confidence of what was so recently one of the richest and most fertile African countries and as Aids cut a swathe through the population, the old pariah, defiant and bigoted to the last, could not resist saying, with the familiar Smithy whine: "I told you so."
(19) She was wolf-reared in Judd Apatow's tumescent-adolescent boy-zone (none of whose denizens is ever cast for his hair colour), but she can take any of those boys to the woodshed for a rhetorical spanking, rich in obscenity and scatology, in that razor-sharp whine.
(20) Offensive behaviour, i.e., whine response to a rod presented in front of the snout and blowing air on back hair was markedly observed, and whine, attacking and biting responses to tapping with a rod on the back in these cats were marked.