Idiom
breathe a sigh of relief
Meaning
to be relieved; to feel relief.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I breathed a sigh of relief when I found my lost keys.”
“After the doctor confirmed that the test results were normal, the whole family breathed a sigh of relief.”
“Once the final deadline passed and the project was submitted, the exhausted team finally breathed a collective sigh of relief.”
Examples
simple
“I breathed a sigh of relief when I found my lost keys.”
contextual
“After the doctor confirmed that the test results were normal, the whole family breathed a sigh of relief.”
complex
“Once the final deadline passed and the project was submitted, the exhausted team finally breathed a collective sigh of relief.”
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