longing
Example Sentences
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What they did share was a brutal colonial past, and a longing to achieve economic self-determination.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
It may be my 83-year-old eyes — maybe somebody younger would not have a problem with this — but the darkness gets to me, so I kept longing to get back to the outside windows.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026
In my time in Florida, I’d found a more complicated story, but down here, everyone had their theories, their longing for citrus nirvana, and their anger at the loss.
From Slate • Apr. 20, 2026
One of my favorite passages captures Mr. Haskell’s first encounter, in Australia, with a Moreton Bay fig tree, its thick, leathery foliage crowded by figbirds longing for the tree’s fruits.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
John dropped a brick in the wagon, then walked up to my seat, all his grief flooding into a sense of longing, a need for escape.
From "Worth" by A. LaFaye
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