- present participle of pine.
pining
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In Lagos, Itoro is still pining for his family.
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
She’s a poet, and I think she really understands girlhood — the pining and the wanting to be accepted — and she does it in such a beautiful and majestic way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
The lack of a son’s POV makes Boy Mom pining both performative and disturbingly real.
From Salon ● Jun. 4, 2026
Investors have been pining to own SpaceX for years.
From Barron's ● May 24, 2026
“The one you’re pining after. The one you dressed up for that one night. The one you’re so completely in love with.”
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
Through countless cosmos, breakups, musings and pinings, we felt we knew her – well, the characters she helped craft anyway.
From US News ● Jan. 13, 2014
Know, then, oh mortal Mardian! that when translated hither, thou wilt but put off lowly temporal pinings, for angel and eternal aspirations.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Herman Melville
If my pinings and regrets have been so great, longing day and night after my dear mother, how much worse must that dear mother have felt for the loss of me?
From Project Gutenberg book of Historical Romance of the American Negro by Charles H. Fowler
What hearts at war with themselves! what unceasing regrets! what pinings after the past! what long and beautiful years devoted to a moral grave, by a momentary rashness, an impulse, a disappointment!
From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
I've seen your sighings and oglings, your pinings and sinkings.
From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman
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