longed
Example Sentences
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She had longed to find her brother for years.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
All those years that you longed to be loved, what if someone told you they did, and you never knew it?
From Salon ● Jun. 15, 2026
“I just longed for my kids to have the same childhood I had, a slower pace of life,” she said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Akl loved Kidspace, but it was a full hour from the family’s house in Camarillo and she longed for something similar closer to home.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
My eye passed all other objects to rest on those most remote, the blue peaks; it was those I longed to surmount; all within their boundary of rock and heath seemed prison-ground, exile limits.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
