Sentence example with the word 'longing'

longing

aching, desiderium, fancy, homesick, honing, languishing, mal du pays, nostalgia, nostomania, wish, wistful, yearning

Definition n. prolonged unfulfilled desire or need

Last update: January 26, 2017


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He died with a longing to see his estranged son.   [verb]

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She saw no pictures of solitude, of hope, of longing, or of despair.   [noun]

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In contrast " One Of These Days " is a slow almost breathless song telling of desperate longing for better times.   [Please select]

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It does n't really matter what the answer is, because the film does capture an ethereal sense of nostalgic longing for faded glory.   [adverb]

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They paused to permit the longing and lingering gaze of the sturdy woodsman, and when it was ended, the body was enveloped, never to be unclosed again.   [Please select]

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His unkindness had overshadowed every hour of her life, and the longing to cry out to him "Indeed, sir, your thoughts wrong me."   [Please select]

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Nay, throw aside that frown, Heyward, and in pity to my longing ears, suffer him to journey in our train.   [Please select]

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Jalais' house, and Scudamore, though longing for a spy-glass, was able to make out a good deal without one.   [Please select]

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I have suffered that, sweet, and know its icy sweats and parching heats; but 'tis not so fierce a fever as that devilish disease, the longing for your company.'   [Please select]

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"We are cramped and trampled and down-trodden by the airs big people give themselves, and the longing of such of us as thinks is to speak our minds about it."   [Please select]

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Have you ever approached them, or met them, without longing to tear, to deface, what is so dishonourable.   [Please select]

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