homesick
Example Sentences
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"I wanted a break," he remembers, partly because he was "homesick" for the city.
From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026
Even with all that milieu and surrounded by many of their countrymen, some Americans still get homesick.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
She spent just one homesick year at Wellesley College, where the walls of her rooms at Wellesley were covered with pictures of cows.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2026
When I first made the big decision to leave behind my hometown suburb of Washington, D.C., and move to New York City, I never anticipated ever feeling homesick.
From Salon ● Jan. 25, 2026
She ended up back in her room, doing her prayers or sitting on the bed, missing her mother, feeling nauseated and homesick.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
